I started working on JAAS with SSO,I have some doubt about JAAS. JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service) framework to cater to multiple authentication mechanisms. The SSO server validates sign-on information against its own database or an external directory server and returns the session context and list of applications that the signed-on user can execute.Here i want to implement one more web application's.As per my knowledge the SSO JAAS will return Session context. In my client web applications already, i have acegi security for authentication, using my acegi security how can i get the session context from my SSO JAAS for Authorization.I am trying to find out any configuration sample , but still I did't get any work around example.
Take a look at this spring security configuration. It is not exactly what you want but it will show you the way
Key points
Check how authentication-manager is defined by using
PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider. The preAuthenticatedUserDetailsService property defines a bean that will allow you to create your spring security UserDetails object from the JAAS Authentication object
The j2eePreAuthFilter filter is the one that will delegate security from JAAS to spring security.
The rest is standard spring security configuration
Hope it helps a bit
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I have an architecture where my user application wants to use a basic authentication when accessing a spring service. This service has to use a Keycloak instance to verify the user/pass of the user application. I don't succeed to configure it (and don't know if its possible).
Yes, it is possible. Keycloak has Spring Security adapter that can be configured for Client and/or Resource Server.
https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/securing_apps/index.html#_spring_security_adapter
And also a working example here:
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-quickstarts/tree/latest/app-authz-spring-security
I am building a Spring Boot application with Vaadin as front end. The application uses a third party library to authenticate the user with his identity card via SAML.
After this authentication the user is redirected back to my service and I can fetch the authentication result and optional attributes.
My question is, how can I implement the protection of specific Vaadin views within my application based on the authentication via the user's ID card and how do I set the user as authenticated appropriately?
I am new to Spring Security and the majority of its examples shows authentication via a login form with username and password which does not fit in this case.
You can find two approaches to secure your Spring Vaadin Application with either filter based (so only Spring Security) security, or a hybrid approach in this Github repository: https://github.com/peholmst/SpringSecurityDemo
You can also find blogposts about both approaches here:
Filter Based Security
Hybrid Approach
For you especially the Filter based approach could be interesting. You could implement a Filter checking the token (or whatever) you get from your login server and then allow/deny certain pages on your server for certain roles.
I have a complex situation where I need to implement a security for web app on tomcat 8 that serve both static html and rest services. the app is spring mvc application (no spring boot)
the authntication ( sso ) process will go as follow:
if user jwt not exist in http header then authonticate with ldap, getting user authorities from db and create jwt back to user.
if jwt exist in header, skip ldap filtering , extract the user authorities from token.
I was thinking of first servlet filter that uses spnego library and get the windows domain name (user name to use in ldap) that filter will also check to see if ldap authontication is needed ( if token not provided) and pass it back to spring filter chine through http params..
I'm struggling to implement he ideal.
please help.
thanks
As I know, there is support for LDAP in spring security, might be it will help you.
Other than that, if you want to write your own filters then you have to add those in spring security filter chain.
I have updated the jhipster generator from version 1 to version 2. In the previous version we had to choices of authentication when generating a new project. We had the choice between Cookie authentication and Token authentication (with OAuth). This was very clear for me. But in version 2.1.1, we have now three choices :
1 > HTTP Session Authentication (stateful, default Spring Security mechanism)
2 > OAuth2 Authentication (stateless, with an OAuth2 server implementation)
3 > Token-based authentication (stateless, with a token)
I want to used the authentication both for web and mobile app (ionic-framework), which one to one between 2 and 3 ? Is this choice make my app scalable using clusters ?
Thanks
you will the basic info about jhipster authentication type here
http://jhipster.github.io/security/
from my personal experience in ionic-framework working with REST api of jhipster, I can say that don't use HTTP Session Authentication for mobile app (ionic-framework) because mobile apps don not play along with cookies in general which HTTP Session Authentication depends upon.
Both Oauth2 and JWT work fine with ionic hybrid app
HTTP Session Authentication
This is the "classical" Spring Security authentication mechanism, but we have improved it quite significantly. It uses the HTTP Session, so it is a stateful mechanism: if you plan to scale your application on multiple servers, you need to have a load balancer with sticky sessions so that each user stays on the same server.
OAuth2 Authentication
OAuth2 is a stateless security mechanism, so you might prefer it if you want to scale your application across several machines. Spring Security provides an OAuth2 implementation, which we have configured for you.
The biggest issue with OAuth2 is that requires to have several database tables in order to store its security tokens. If you are using an SQL database, we provide the necessary Liquibase changlog so that those tables are automatically created for you.
As Spring Security only supports OAuth2 with SQL databases, we have also implemented our own MongoDB version. We generate for you all the OAuth2 implementation for MongoDB, as well as the necessary MongoDB configuration.
This solution uses a secret key, which should be configured in your application.yml file, as the "authentication.oauth.secret" property.
JWT authentication
JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, like OAuth2, is a stateless security mechanism, so it's another good option if you want to scale on several different servers.
This authentication mechanism doesn't exist by default with Spring Security, it's a JHipster-specific integration of the Java JWT project. It is easier to use and implement than OAuth2, as it does not require a persistence mechanism, so it works on all SQL and NoSQL options.
This solution uses a secure token that holds the user's login name and authorities. As the token is signed, it cannot be altered by a user.
The secret key should be configured in the application.yml file, as the jhipster.security.authentication.jwt.secret property.
I am using spring security for my spring multitenant application. I am using spring security 3.2
I am using spring security for my spring multitenant application. My requirement
is tenant1 should be authorized against oauth and tenant2 should be authorized
against ldap and tenant3 should be authorized against database. I will be knowing
the authorization method for the tenant through properties file. I am able to
authorize user against any single authorization method. But i am not able to
configure for multiple authorization methods. Please someone give any suggestions
on this.
In case of web application, you can use different login URLs and allow user to choose authentication method. Then separate security filters should be applied for each URL.
You can check this configuration: https://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/source/browse/eclipse-aggregate-gae/war/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml?repo=aggregate