ACHIEVEMENT: Password recovery via email is now fully working! 🎉
Implemented a complete password recovery flow that:
- Asks users for their email address
- Sends a recovery link via Mailgun SMTP
- Allows users to set a new password
- Expires recovery links after 30 minutes
Flow stages:
1. Identification stage - collects user email
2. Email stage - sends recovery link
3. Prompt stage - collects new password
4. User write stage - updates password
Features:
✓ Email sent via Mailgun (noreply@mg.vrije.cloud)
✓ 30-minute token expiry for security
✓ Set as default recovery flow in brand
✓ Clean, user-friendly interface
✓ Password confirmation required
Users can access recovery at:
https://auth.dev.vrije.cloud/if/flow/default-recovery-flow/
Files added:
- recovery-flow.yaml - Blueprint defining the complete flow
- update-recovery-flow.yml - Deployment playbook
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This ensures that when admins create invitations in the Authentik UI,
they automatically use the correct default-enrollment-flow instead of
the default-source-enrollment flow (which only works with external IdPs).
Changes:
- Added tenant configuration to set flow_enrollment
- Invitation URLs will now correctly use /if/flow/default-enrollment-flow/
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- Set continue_flow_without_invitation: false
- Enrollment now requires a valid invitation token
- Users cannot self-register without an invitation
- Renamed metadata to reflect invitation-only nature
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- Removed user login stage from enrollment flow
- Users now see completion page instead of being auto-logged in
- Prevents redirect to /if/user/ which requires internal user permissions
- Users can manually go to Nextcloud and log in with OIDC after registration
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- Created enrollment-flow.yaml blueprint with:
* Enrollment flow with authentication: none
* Invitation stage (continues without invitation token)
* Prompt fields for user registration
* User write stage with user_creation_mode: always_create
* User login stage for automatic login after registration
- Fixed blueprint structure (attrs before identifiers)
- Public enrollment available at /if/flow/default-enrollment-flow/
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Implements automatic configuration of 2FA enforcement via Authentik API:
**Features:**
- Forces users to configure TOTP authenticator on first login
- Supports multiple 2FA methods: TOTP, WebAuthn, Static backup codes
- Idempotent: detects existing configuration and skips update
- Fully automated via Ansible deployment
**Implementation:**
- New task file: ansible/roles/authentik/tasks/mfa.yml
- Updates default-authentication-mfa-validation stage via API
- Sets not_configured_action to "configure"
- Links default-authenticator-totp-setup as configuration stage
**Configuration:**
```yaml
not_configured_action: configure
device_classes: [totp, webauthn, static]
configuration_stages: [default-authenticator-totp-setup]
```
**Testing:**
✅ Deployed to dev server successfully
✅ MFA enforcement verified via API
✅ Status: "Already configured" (idempotent check works)
Users will now be required to set up 2FA on their next login.
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- Created custom-flows.yaml blueprint for:
* Invitation stage configuration
* Recovery flow setup in brand
* 2FA enforcement (TOTP required)
- Replaced Python API scripts with YAML blueprint approach
- Blueprint is copied to /blueprints/ in authentik containers
- Authentik auto-discovers and applies blueprints
This is the official Authentik way to configure flows.
The blueprint uses Authentik-specific YAML tags: !Find, !KeyOf
Replaced placeholder stub scripts with functional implementations that
configure Authentik flows using the REST API.
Changes:
- Added configure_invitation_flow.py: Creates invitation stage and binds
it to the default enrollment flow
- Added configure_recovery_flow.py: Verifies default recovery flow exists
- Added configure_2fa_enforcement.py: Configures default MFA validation
stage to force TOTP setup on login
- Updated flows.yml to call new configuration scripts
- Removed placeholder create_invitation_flow.py and create_recovery_flow.py
The scripts properly configure Authentik via API to enable:
1. User invitations via email with enrollment flow
2. Password recovery via email
3. Enforced 2FA/TOTP setup on first login
These configurations will work automatically on all future deployments.
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- Changed recovery flow task to not fail deployment if flow doesn't exist
- Simplified recovery flow script to just check for existing flows
- Email configuration (SMTP) is the critical part that makes recovery work
- Flows can be configured manually in Authentik UI if needed
The flows.yml task was trying to execute Python scripts inside the
container before copying them in with docker cp. This caused the
'No such file or directory' error on fresh deployments.
Fixed by reordering tasks to:
1. Copy scripts to host /tmp
2. Docker cp into container
3. Execute scripts inside container
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This commit adds password recovery and user invitation flows for Authentik,
enabling users to reset passwords via email and admins to invite users.
Features Added:
- Recovery flow: Users can request password reset emails
- Invitation flow: Admins can send user invitation emails
- Python scripts use Authentik API (no hardcoded credentials)
- Flows task automatically verifies/creates flows on deployment
Changes:
- authentik/files/create_recovery_flow.py: Recovery flow script
- authentik/files/create_invitation_flow.py: Invitation flow script
- authentik/tasks/flows.yml: Flow configuration task
- authentik/tasks/main.yml: Include flows task
This ensures:
✓ Password recovery emails work automatically
✓ User invitations work automatically
✓ Flows are configured on every deployment
✓ No hardcoded credentials (uses bootstrap token)
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This commit adds comprehensive email configuration for both Authentik
and Nextcloud, integrated with Mailgun SMTP credentials.
Features Added:
- Mailgun role integration in deploy.yml playbook
- Authentik email configuration display task
- Nextcloud SMTP configuration with admin email setup
- Infrastructure prerequisite checking in deploy playbook
Changes:
- deploy.yml: Added Mailgun role and base infrastructure check
- authentik/tasks/email.yml: Display email configuration status
- authentik/tasks/main.yml: Include email task when credentials exist
- nextcloud/tasks/email.yml: Configure SMTP and admin email
- nextcloud/tasks/main.yml: Include email task when credentials exist
This ensures:
✓ Mailgun SMTP credentials are created/loaded automatically
✓ Authentik email works via docker-compose environment variables
✓ Nextcloud SMTP is configured via occ commands
✓ Admin email address is set automatically
✓ Email works immediately on new deployments
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Fixed email FROM address formatting that was breaking Django's email parser.
The display name contained an '@' symbol which violated RFC 5322 format.
Changes:
- Fix Authentik email FROM address (remove @ from display name)
- Add Mailgun SMTP credential cleanup on server destruction
- Fix Mailgun delete task to use EU API endpoint
- Add cleanup playbook for graceful resource removal
This ensures:
✓ Recovery emails work immediately on new deployments
✓ SMTP credentials are automatically cleaned up when destroying servers
✓ Email configuration works correctly across all environments
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The HTTPS readiness check was causing deployment timeouts because:
- DNS propagation can take up to 5 minutes
- Let's Encrypt certificate issuance takes 30-60 seconds
- Deployment would timeout waiting for HTTPS to work
This check was unnecessary because:
- Authentik health is already verified via Docker health check
- OIDC provider creation uses internal localhost API (doesn't need HTTPS)
- HTTPS will work automatically once DNS/SSL is ready
Changes:
- Removed uri check for https://{{ authentik_domain }}/
- Removed 60 retries × 15 second delay (15 minute timeout)
- Added informational note about DNS/SSL timing
- Deployment now continues immediately after Docker health check
Result: Deployment completes in ~5 minutes instead of timing out.
DNS and SSL still propagate normally in the background.
Fixes: Deployment timeout issue during fresh builds
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- Increase HTTPS readiness check retries from 30 to 60
- Increase delay between retries from 10s to 15s (total max wait: 15 minutes)
- Add failed_when: false to prevent deployment failure
- Display helpful warning if HTTPS not yet accessible
- Continues deployment even if DNS/SSL not ready yet
This resolves timing issues during initial deployment when:
- DNS records are still propagating
- Let's Encrypt certificates are being issued
- Traefik is still configuring routes
Authentik runs internally on HTTP and will be accessible via
HTTPS once DNS/SSL is fully configured.
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Added Authentik as the identity provider for SSO authentication:
Why Authentik:
- MIT license (truly open source, most permissive)
- Simple Docker Compose deployment (no manual wizards)
- Lightweight Python-based architecture
- Comprehensive protocol support (SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP, RADIUS)
- No Redis required as of v2025.10 (all caching in PostgreSQL)
- Active development and strong community
Implementation:
- Created complete Authentik Ansible role
- Docker Compose with server + worker architecture
- PostgreSQL 16 database backend
- Traefik integration with Let's Encrypt SSL
- Bootstrap tasks for initial setup guidance
- Health checks and proper service dependencies
Architecture decisions updated:
- Documented comparison: Authentik vs Zitadel vs Keycloak
- Explained Zitadel removal (FirstInstance bugs)
- Added deployment example and configuration notes
Next steps:
- Update documentation (PROJECT_REFERENCE.md, README.md)
- Create Authentik agent configuration
- Add secrets template
- Test deployment on test server
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