Unable to connect to registry with token auth

[Gabriel Augendre]

Hi,
I'm unable to connect to my registry using either the static option with URL, with REGISTRY_URL or the dynamic one.

I'm always getting a "toast" with the response from the server:

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
            "message": "authentication required",
            "detail": null
        }
    ]
}

Here's a screenshot:

Things to note:

• Both run inside a company network, not accessible from the internet
• The registry works fine with authentication. I can docker login stable.registry.example.com without any issue.
• I tried to use the demo version, it didn't work either. I got an error saying to check my connectivity and set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to https://joxit.github.com (which I did).
• Both services are served through Traefik, which handles the routing and the TLS part.

Here's my docker-compose.yml

version: '3.5'

services:
  ui:
    image: joxit/docker-registry-ui:static
    environment:
      #- URL=https://stable.registry.example.com
      - REGISTRY_URL=http://registry:5000
    networks:
      - traefik-net
    deploy:
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role == worker
          - node.platform.os == linux
      update_config:
        order: start-first
      labels:
        - "traefik.port=80"
        - "traefik.docker.network=traefik-net"
        - "traefik.enable=true"
        - "traefik.frontend.rule=Host:ui.registry.example.com"
        - "traefik.backend.loadbalancer.stickiness=true"
        - "traefik.backend.loadbalancer.method=drr"
  registry:
    image: registry:2
    networks:
      - traefik-net
    volumes:
      - /mnt/registry:/var/lib/registry
    env_file: env.env  # The env file only contains the HTTP secret key
    deploy:
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role == worker
          - node.platform.os == linux
          - node.labels.registry == true
      update_config:
        order: start-first
      labels:
        - "traefik.port=5000"
        - "traefik.docker.network=traefik-net"
        - "traefik.enable=true"
        - "traefik.frontend.rule=Host:edge.registry.example.com,stable.registry.example.com"
        - "traefik.backend.loadbalancer.stickiness=true"
        - "traefik.backend.loadbalancer.method=drr"
    configs:
      - source: docker_auth.pem
        target: /docker_auth.pem
      - source: registry_config.yml
        target: /etc/docker/registry/config.yml

networks:
  traefik-net:
    external: true

configs:
  docker_auth.pem:
    file: ./docker_auth.pem
  registry_config.yml:
    file: ./registry_config.yml
    name: registry_config_v${REGISTRY_CONFIG_VERSION}.yml

and my registry_config.yml

version: 0.1
log:
  fields:
    service: registry
storage:
  delete:
    enabled: true
  cache:
    blobdescriptor: inmemory
  filesystem:
    rootdirectory: /var/lib/registry
http:
  addr: :5000
  headers:
    X-Content-Type-Options: [nosniff]
    Access-Control-Allow-Origin: ['https://ui.registry.example.com']
    Access-Control-Allow-Methods: ['HEAD', 'GET', 'OPTIONS', 'DELETE']
    Access-Control-Allow-Headers: ['Authorization']
    Access-Control-Max-Age: [1728000]
    Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: [true]
    Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ['Docker-Content-Digest']
health:
  storagedriver:
    enabled: true
    interval: 10s
    threshold: 3
auth:
  token:
    rootcertbundle: /docker_auth.pem
    realm: "https://stable.docker-auth.example.com/auth"
    service: "Docker registry"
    issuer: "example docker auth server"

[Jones Magloire]

Hello, thank you for your issue.

I'm sorry but the UI can only use basic authentication and not authentication by token 😕

auth:
  htpasswd:
    realm: basic-realm
    path: /etc/docker/registry/htpasswd

Maybe one day this will be available.

Basic auth can be a security issue sometimes (when you use it with docker login).
I suggest you connect to your registry with token and have a basic-auth connection for the UI only with restricted rights (only GET/OPTION/HEADER methods on /v2/, ).

I hope this will help you

[Gabriel Augendre]

Thanks for your answer ☺️
Sadly that's a no-go for us as we need LDAP auth. Do you happen to know of a web UI that would allow to use token auth with an external provider ? I saw https://hub.docker.com/r/hyper/docker-registry-web/ but it seems to include the authentication server and it's too complex for our use case.

I also suggest to edit the readme in order to reflect the fact that only basic auth is supported and make it explicit that token auth is not 😉

[Jones Magloire]

You are welcome.

Sorry but I don't know any other alternatives to do it 😕 good luck to find what you are looking for.

[Mohamed BOUSSAA]

@Joxit Hello, following this issue, I guess token based authentification is still not supported. You said previously that we can set the "basic-auth connection for the UI only with restricted rights (only GET/OPTION/HEADER"

My question is how to set these options "GET/OPTION/HEADER" with a joxit/docker-registry-ui:static image?
BR.

[Jones Magloire]

Hi @mboussaa, I wrote a new example for you here. I'm using the UI as a proxy to the registry with some access right for read/write.

Is that what you were looking for?

[Vitaly]

@Joxit
Using those can i do both, the token auth to registry and basic-auth to ui?
If so, can you please specify how?

thanks allot.

[Vitaly]

Thanks for your answer ☺️
Sadly that's a no-go for us as we need LDAP auth. Do you happen to know of a web UI that would allow to use token auth with an external provider ? I saw https://hub.docker.com/r/hyper/docker-registry-web/ but it seems to include the authentication server and it's too complex for our use case.

I also suggest to edit the readme in order to reflect the fact that only basic auth is supported and make it explicit that token auth is not 😉

@Crocmagnon
Did you find any solution?

[Gabriel Augendre]

Did you find any solution?

@vitalybrandes sorry, I left this job more than two years ago and I can't remember what we ended up with. Also, the landscape must have changed a lot since then 😕

[Jones Magloire]

Hi there, in 2.0.0 token auth will be avalable via keycloak/docker token auth v2 protocol 🚀 checkout #167 and the new example https://github.com/Joxit/docker-registry-ui/tree/main/examples/token-auth-keycloak