I am using spring boot to launch a spring application. What I am finding is that if my user is logged in and I need to restart the spring boot application the user appears to stay logged in, at least based on this code returning true:
<script sec:authorize="isAuthenticated()" th:inline="javascript">
However, the session for the user is empty and the code I normally use to build up some local session data, the onAuthenticationSuccess method of my AuthSuccessHandler isn't called.
I can probably find some creative ways to fix this but I'd like to understand what is happening and what is a proper solution.
Figured this out - in my application.yml I just needed:
server.servlet.session:
persistent: false
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I'm using Spring Security (4.0.1) and Spring Social (1.1.2) to implement authentication to a Spring MVC application using either a Form of using an existing facebook account. Form authentication is working perfectly. However, facebook authentication is not working.
As far as I can see, I've setup the pieces needed to make this work:
created a class that implements SocialConfigurer, adding the facebook connection factory, useridsource (existing AuthenticationNameUserIdSource) and usersconnectionrepository (custom made for use with OrientDB)
Added a line to apply SpringSocialConfigurer in my WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
Added a SocialUserDetailsService bean
This seems to be working for the most part, but the authentication is not completed. When calling /auth/facebook, the following happens:
redirect to facebook.com oauth (login mechanism)
callback to /auth/facebook on my application, with a lengthy code variable and state variable
redirect to my defaultFailureUrl, without warning, error or any message in log or request variables
So there is something going wrong, but I can't determine what or where exactly.
I've tried to set logging for org.springframework.social to FINEST, but that doesn't show any messages.
Does anyone have any tips how to determine the cause of this failure to complete authentication using facebook?
Thanks in advance,
Sem
I found the answer to my question, I had to configure log4j correctly in order to receive all of Spring's log messages in my default server log.
These log messages helped me to determine the issue at hand: my app signature had been changed. Quite an awkward issue to be stuck with for a long time ..
Hope this helps someone else struggling with Spring issues, make sure you have log4j included in your project, create a log4j properties file and make sure it is available to your container.
For me the following configuration worked:
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, console
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.layout.conversionPattern=%5p [%t] (%F:%L) - %m%n
I put it in the domain config for my glassfish domain, and added it to the JVM options using the Dlog4j.configuration property.
Regards,
Sem
I am trying to implement a function where a admin user can terminate another user's session. I followed the official Spring Security documentation here: http://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#list-authenticated-principals and started with getting all currently logged in users through sessionRegistry.getAllPrincipals(), but it always returned an empty list.
I set a breakpoint in SessionRegistryImpl.registerNewSession() and could see it did indeed get invoked and it did add the UserDetails (my own implementation with both equals() and hashCode() implemented) to the hashmap principals. But when I access sessionRegistry bean from a Spring MVC controller, the list is always empty.
My configuration looks pretty much the same as the documentation.
How to fix this? Did anyone successfully get SessionRegistry to work with Spring Security 4? I remember I made it work with Spring Security 3 by following these intructions(enter link description here)
OK, so I fixed the issue by cleaning up the Spring configuration files, as suggested by the comments. Someone messed up with the web.xml - he added a reference to the context XML that is already referenced by the Spring's DispatcherServlet, causing it to be loaded twice. He didn't know it, because Spring references the file implicitly.
P.S.
I learned my lessons, but 2 things the Spring folks could do better (maybe in Spring 5?):
There shouldn't be implicit context file loading. Currently, the framework will try to load the application context from a file named [servlet-name]-servlet.xml located in the application's WebContent/WEB-INF directory. Convention over configuration fails in this case.
There should be warning when a bean is loaded twice, if someone need to override a bean definition, he must declare explicitly. Otherwise it would take a lot of time to debug the kind of error this mistake will cause.
I'm migrating a JSF application from Spring Security 3.2 to 4.0.1. This version changes many default urls, for example the default login url to /login.
The application has its own login page (using JSF AJAX) and it is still displayed when calling /login, but all POST-Requests to this URL (and so all AJAX-Requests from the Login-Page) are captured by the UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter and that is trying to process the authentication, causing the request to get redirected to the loginform again.
After looking at the code this url seems to be hard-coded:
public UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter() {
super(new AntPathRequestMatcher("/login", "POST"));
}
So I have to disable this filter completely, or better, avoid it's creation. Can anybody point me how I can do it.
Changing my login page to another url is working, but is not the nice solution.
EDIT: I have created a Bugticket in Spring Security for this: https://jira.spring.io/browse/SEC-2992
EDIT 2: I've found another workaround: If I set the login-processing-url for the form-login to something unused it is working, but seems to be very hacky. There should be a way to disable it completely. Also it should be stated in the migration guide, I lost hours until I found this.
I am going to assume that you are trying to upgrade to Spring Security 4.0.0 (the latest available version is 4.0.1).
Spring Security 3.x used spring_security_login as the default login URL (source: official documentation). This could be set to a custom value as <security:form-login login-page="/login"> and mapped to a controller to render a custom page.
Spring Security 4.x has abandoned spring_security_login and switched to login as the default login URL (source: official Spring Security 4.x migration guide). Therefore, the URL login now goes to the default Spring Security infrastructure, that displays the default, auto-generated login page.
There was a bug in 4.0.0 due to which the default infrastructure was still getting used in cases where the URL /login was manually mapped to a custom controller method. This bug has been fixed in 4.0.1. Do try upgrading to Spring Security 4.0.1 to see if you can use /login as the login URL.
It looks like you could call setFilterProcessesUrl(String) (or, equivalently, setRequiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher(RequestMatcher)) to override the default of /login.
So we're using spring-security-redirect as a parameter in the form that is sent to j_spring_security_check, in order to send the user to the correct page after a successful login. Migrating from Spring security 3.0 to 3.1, this stopped working. We use a subclass of SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler, overriding onAuthenticationSuccess(), and debugging that method I see that getTargetUrlParameter() returns null. isAlwaysUseDefaultTargetUrl() returns false.
Browsing around I can't find anyone having similar problems... I find some references to AbstractAuthenticationTargetUrlRequestHandler.DEFAULT_TARGET_PARAMETER, which seems to have disappeared in 3.1.
Any ideas?
As per Spring security 3.1 xsd,
Attribute : authentication-success-handler-ref
Reference to an AuthenticationSuccessHandler bean which should be used to handle a successful authentication
request. Should not be used in combination with default-target-url (or always-use-default-target-url) as the
implementation should always deal with navigation to the subsequent destination.
So, in your subclass, you have to perform the redirection.
In my spring-3 application I have an AuthenticationInterceptor (which is basically an interceptor) that checks for the privileges for a user. I am using a Spring's MultipartResolver to try an upload a file to the server.
The problem that I now face is that I wish to perform different actions based on user privileges, in case of a MaxUploadSizeExceededException.
However I see that this exception is occurring at the DispatcherServlet level and is caught by HandlerExceptionResolver
I want to be able to call my AuthenticationInterceptor before any of this happens?
Is there a straightforward way.
The problem is that the exception occurs BEFORE the request is dispatched to a controller and because of that, your interceptor also never fires. I guess you have that part figured out already.
Want to get around that...
For starters, I would move the authentication mechanism out IN FRONT of the servlet by using servlet filters. This being said, it makes little or no sense to roll your own solution in that space when a great product like Spring Security can do that for you.
Once you transition to Spring Security (or similar), the user's SecurityContext (roles, permissions, etc.) will have been resolved by the time the exception occurs and is caught.
Now, if I'm reading your question correctly, it seems you might like to respond to the exception differently based on the user's roles, permissions, etc. That should be possible at this point. You'd implement a custom HandlerExceptionResolver that inspects the SecurityContext to see if the user has a certain role or permission and then respond accordingly.
Hope that helps!
There are two basic ways to handle doing something in-stream before the Handler code gets called:
Implement the HandlerInterceptor interface, and code the code you want to run in the preHandle method
Create an Aspect using #Aspect and configure a pointcut to run #Before the method call
In either case, you could check the logged-in user's Roles using SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getAuthorities() and then decide what to do based on Role membership.