Sign in to Fleet Desktop's My device page via SSO

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Relates to #51523

The device page now reads the sso_required marker off a 401 and starts the SSO flow instead of reporting an invalid URL. A plain 401 still means a stale device token and renders the existing error unchanged. Classification is centralized so a session that lapses mid-visit re-initiates from whichever device call happens to be refused next.

One automatic trip to the IdP per token, tracked in sessionStorage and cleared once the page loads. Coming back still unauthenticated means the session cookie never stuck (blocked cookies, clock skew), and initiating again would bounce the end user between Fleet and the IdP forever, so the second refusal is terminal with a manual retry. The sso_error the callback redirects with, and setup_only, suppress the automatic attempt for the same reason.

Callbacks that fail before the SSO session loads know neither the initiator nor the device page URL -- both live in the session -- so they landed Fleet Desktop end users on the admin callback error page. That is reachable in ordinary use: the handshake window spans an MFA push or a walk to a hardware token. InitiateDeviceSSO now sends the initiator as SAML RelayState, which the IdP echoes back, and the early failure path switches on it to /device/sso-error. The device auth token stays out of it: relay state reaches the IdP's request logs, and the bindings cap it at 80 bytes anyway. Fleet never redirects to relay state, only switches on it, and drops any value it did not send, so the four enrollment initiators keep today's behavior byte-for-byte and a non-conformant IdP degrades to it rather than breaking.

Flow

sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    actor User as End user
    participant Page as My device page (SPA)
    participant API as Fleet server
    participant IdP

    User->>Page: clicks "My device" in the tray, opens /device/{token}
    Page->>API: GET /device/{token} (and the page's other gated calls)

    alt Gate off, or a valid device SSO session cookie rides along
        API-->>Page: 200
        Note over Page: clears its browser sessionStorage flag<br/>fleet-device-sso-attempt:{token}, so a later<br/>expiry gets its own automatic attempt
        Page-->>User: renders normally
    else 401 with no marker
        API-->>Page: 401 (device token stale or invalid)
        Note over Page: the gate never ran, so an IdP round-trip<br/>cannot help -- initiation is token-authed too
        Page-->>User: "This URL is invalid or expired." (unchanged)
    else 401 carrying the sso_required marker
        API-->>Page: 401 + sso_required

        alt No attempt recorded yet, and no sso_error / setup_only in the URL
            Note over Page: isSSORequiredError matches on any of the four<br/>page-level queries, then records the sessionStorage flag

            alt The flag could not be stored (site data blocked)
                Note over Page: an attempt Fleet cannot remember is one it cannot<br/>count, and blocked storage usually means a blocked<br/>session cookie -- so no automatic trip is made
                Page-->>User: "Couldn't sign in." + Sign in again
            else Flag stored
            Page->>API: POST /device/{token}/sso

            alt Initiation refused (SSO off, no IdP, host mismatch, free tier)
                API-->>Page: 4xx
                Page-->>User: "Couldn't sign in." + Sign in again
            else Initiation accepted
                API-->>Page: {url} + __Host-FLEETSSOSESSIONID handshake cookie
                Page-->>User: "Redirecting to your organization's sign-in page..."
                Page->>IdP: window.location.href = url<br/>AuthnRequest, RelayState = fleet_desktop
                User->>IdP: authenticates (password, MFA push, hardware token)
                IdP->>API: POST /mdm/sso/callback<br/>SAMLResponse + RelayState echoed back

                alt Handshake session already gone (expired, or cookie missing)
                    Note over API: the session held both the initiator and the<br/>return URL, so only RelayState is left to switch on
                    API-->>Page: 303 /device/sso-error?reason=session_expired
                    Page-->>User: "Your sign-in session expired."
                else Session loaded, but the assertion did not verify
                    Note over API: the failure path discards the session's contents,<br/>so RelayState still does the routing here
                    API-->>Page: 303 /device/sso-error?reason=error
                    Page-->>User: "Couldn't finish signing in."
                else Session loaded, but no device session could be minted
                    Note over API: SSO disabled mid-flow, or host gone
                    API-->>Page: 303 /device/{token}?sso_error=sso_disabled|server_error
                    Note over Page: sso_error suppresses auto-initiate,<br/>otherwise this loops forever
                    Page-->>User: "Couldn't sign in." + Sign in again
                else Success
                    API-->>Page: 303 /device/{token}<br/>+ __Host-FLEET_DESKTOP_SESSION cookie
                    Page->>API: GET /device/{token} (token + session cookie)
                    API-->>Page: 200
                    Page-->>User: renders normally
                end
            end
            end
        else Attempt already recorded, flag unreadable, or sso_error / setup_only in the URL
            Note over Page: loop guard -- one automatic trip per token, the rest are<br/>the end user's to make. setup_only is defense in depth:<br/>the server already exempts Setup Experience calls
            Page-->>User: "Couldn't sign in." + Sign in again
        end
    end

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added Fleet Desktop SSO initiation with secure relay-state handling.
  • Added automatic SSO recovery when device access requires authentication.
  • Added retryable “Sign in again” actions for failed SSO attempts.
  • Added dedicated device SSO error pages with session-expired and callback-failure guidance.
  • Improved redirects so device-originated SSO failures return to the appropriate device-facing page.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented repeated automatic SSO redirects and preserved existing behavior for unrelated authentication errors.
  • Ensured sensitive device tokens are excluded from identity-provider URLs.

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The change adds validated SAML RelayState support for SSO initiators. Fleet Desktop device SSO requests now carry an initiator value through the identity provider and callbacks. Failed Fleet Desktop callbacks redirect to a device-facing error page. The frontend adds device SSO initiation, per-device attempt tracking, automatic redirect and retry handling, callback-loop prevention, typed error messages, and route-specific error rendering. Tests cover server redirects, RelayState handling, device recovery, and error-page behavior.

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In `@frontend/pages/hosts/details/DeviceUserPage/helpers.ts`:
- Around line 108-122: Update hasAttemptedDeviceSSO and recordDeviceSSOAttempt
so storage failures conservatively prevent automatic SSO initiation while
preserving the manual “Sign in again” path. Ensure the unavailable-storage
result is distinguishable from “no attempt recorded,” and use that state in the
existing automatic-redirect decision without changing successful sessionStorage
behavior.

In `@server/service/integration_mdm_test.go`:
- Around line 7164-7172: Add a separate regression case in the existing MDM SSO
callback tests for a request with no RelayState parameter, and assert it
redirects to /mdm/sso/callback?error=true&reason=session_expired, while
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• ee/server/service/devices.go
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• frontend/components/DeviceUserError/DeviceUserError.tests.tsx
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• frontend/components/DeviceUserError/index.ts
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• frontend/pages/hosts/details/DeviceUserPage/helpers.tests.ts
• frontend/pages/hosts/details/DeviceUserPage/helpers.ts
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