Microservice to bring 2FA to self hosted PDSes
1# PDS gatekeeper 2 3A microservice that sits on the same server as the PDS to add some of the security that the entryway does. 4 5![Picture in black and white of a grassy hill with a gate at the top](./images/gate.jpg) 6 7PDS gatekeeper works by overriding some of the PDS endpoints inside your Caddyfile to provide gatekeeping to certain 8endpoints. Mainly, the ability to have 2FA on a self hosted PDS like it does on a Bluesky mushroom(PDS). Most of the 9logic of these endpoints still happens on the PDS via a proxied request, just some are gatekept. 10 11# Features 12 13## 2FA 14 15- Overrides The login endpoint to add 2FA for both Bluesky client logged in and OAuth logins 16- Overrides the settings endpoints as well. As long as you have a confirmed email you can turn on 2FA 17 18## Captcha on Create Account 19 20Future feature? 21 22# Setup 23 24PDS Gatekeeper has 2 parts to its setup, docker compose file and a reverse proxy (Caddy in this case). I will be 25assuming you setup the PDS following the directions 26found [here](https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting), but if yours is different, or you have questions, feel free to 27let 28me know, and we can figure it out. 29 30## Docker compose 31 32The pds gatekeeper container can be found on docker hub under the name `fatfingers23/pds_gatekeeper`. The container does 33need access to the `/pds` root folder to access the same db's as your PDS. The part you need to add would look a bit 34like below. You can find a full example of what I use for my pds at [./examples/compose.yml](./examples/compose.yml). 35This is usually found at `/pds/compose.yaml`on your PDS> 36 37```yml 38 gatekeeper: 39 container_name: gatekeeper 40 image: fatfingers23/pds_gatekeeper:arm-latest 41 network_mode: host 42 restart: unless-stopped 43 #This gives the container to the access to the PDS folder. Source is the location on your server of that directory 44 volumes: 45 - type: bind 46 source: /pds 47 target: /pds 48 depends_on: 49 - pds 50``` 51 52## Caddy setup 53 54For the reverse proxy I use caddy. This part is what overwrites the endpoints and proxies them to PDS gatekeeper to add 55in extra functionality. The main part is below, for a full example see [./examples/Caddyfile](./examples/Caddyfile). 56This is usually found at `/pds/caddy/etc/caddy/Caddyfile` on your PDS. 57 58```caddyfile 59 @gatekeeper { 60 path /xrpc/com.atproto.server.getSession 61 path /xrpc/com.atproto.server.updateEmail 62 path /xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession 63 path /@atproto/oauth-provider/~api/sign-in 64 } 65 66 handle @gatekeeper { 67 reverse_proxy http://localhost:8080 68 } 69 70 reverse_proxy http://localhost:3000 71``` 72 73If you use a cloudflare tunnel then your caddyfile would look a bit more like below with your tunnel proxying to 74`localhost:8081` (or w/e port you want). 75 76```caddyfile 77http://*.localhost:8082, http://localhost:8082 { 78 @gatekeeper { 79 path /xrpc/com.atproto.server.getSession 80 path /xrpc/com.atproto.server.updateEmail 81 path /xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession 82 path /@atproto/oauth-provider/~api/sign-in 83 } 84 85 handle @gatekeeper { 86 reverse_proxy http://localhost:8080 87 } 88 89 reverse_proxy http://localhost:3000 90} 91 92``` 93 94# Environment variables and bonuses 95 96Every environment variable can be set in the `pds.env` and shared between PDS and gatekeeper and the PDS, with the 97exception of `PDS_ENV_LOCATION`. This can be set to load the pds.env, by default it checks `/pds/pds.env` and is 98recommended to mount the `/pds` folder on the server to `/pds` in the pds gatekeeper container. 99 100`PDS_DATA_DIRECTORY` - Root directory of the PDS. Same as the one found in `pds.env` this is how pds gatekeeper knows 101knows the rest of the environment variables. 102 103`GATEKEEPER_EMAIL_TEMPLATES_DIRECTORY` - The folder for templates of the emails PDS gatekeeper sends. You can find them 104in [./email_templates](./email_templates). You are free to edit them as you please and set this variable to a location 105in the pds gateekeper container and it will use them in place of the default ones. Just make sure ot keep the names the 106same. 107 108`PDS_BASE_URL` - Base url of the PDS. You most likely want `https://localhost:3000` which is also the default 109 110`GATEKEEPER_HOST` - Host for pds gatekeeper. Defaults to `127.0.0.1` 111 112`GATEKEEPER_PORT` - Port for pds gatekeeper. Defaults to `8080`