Provide a query parameter in UI to allow specifying mount in login UI

[shwuandwing]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Today, the Vault login url can take a query parameter specifying the login method. e.g. https://vault.com/ui/vault/auth?with=jwt . This lets people write documentation and share links to the Vault UI that has the jwt as the login method populated. There is a query parameter to support prefilling the namespace as well for Enterprise.

We like a query parameter in the url to specify the mount path as well (for customers who create auth mounts at a custom path). Curently, we have to share a url to the with jwt specified but document to users to specify the mount path

Describe the solution you'd like
A query parameter to specify the mount path

[martincostello]

Similarly, I'd also like a query string parameter that can be used for the role name for a JWT/OpenID connection. Maybe there's scope to look at prefill parameters in general, rather than just specifically for adding mount path and this?

[remilapeyre]

Hi, I opened a PR to fix this issue: #14988

[heatherezell]

The linked PR was closed due to inactivity, so I wanted to come by and give a (slightly belated, apologies) update. Our engineers are planning on making some changes and improvement to the auth forms, which will hopefully help cover some of these pain points. We have linked this GitHub issue to our internal Jira tracking ticket, so if this gets closed, check the release notes to see what made it in. Thanks so much for your patience!

[marcportabellaclotet-mt]

Any update on this topic?

[hellobontempo]

Apologies for the delay here. This behavior actually already exists, admittedly the UX is confusing and we're working on improving the workflow as well as adding clear documentation.

1. Tune the mount to have listing_visibility="unauth". This can be done using the CLI or UI (docs). This makes the custom path known to the web UI prior to authentication.

2. When tab is selected the with= query param designates the custom mount path