Reverse proxy header authentication

Overview

Team Edition offers a feature for authorization and authentication using reverse proxy headers. This method allows to authenticate users via specific HTTP header fields.

Configuration Steps

Enabling Reverse proxy authentication

1. As an administrator, navigate to the Settings -> Server configuration.

2. Locate the Reverse proxy option and activate this setting to allow reverse proxy authentication.

   

3. Save changes.

Reverse proxy identity provider configuration

To configure reverse proxy authentication in the Team Edition using the graphical user interface (GUI), follow these steps:

1) Log in as an administrator. 2) Navigate to Settings -> Server configuration in the Team Edition interface. 3) Click on the + Add button to create a new authentication provider. 4) In the Provider dropdown menu, select Reverse Proxy. 5) Enter a unique identifier in the ID field and a name for the configuration in the Configuration name field. 6) Click on Save to apply the changes.

Configuring default HTTP header fields

Configure the standard HTTP header fields as follows:

Header	Description
X-User	user login
X-Team	user teams
X-First-name	user profile firstname
X-Last-name	user profile lastname
X-Full-name	user profile fullname
X-Role	user roles, only for DBeaver Team edition

Header example

Consider a user named newuser, belonging to both user and admin teams. To access an application with reverse proxy header authentication enabled, the following HTTP headers should be set in the request to the Team Edition application:

X-User: newuser
X-Team: user|admin
X-First-name: John
X-Last-name: Smith

Tip: Team Edition categorizes users into two default teams: user and admin. Default delimiter used to separate teams in the header is | (could be customized in team-delimiter parameter, all characters are allowed).