I am in a problem is that I am accessing my report server from a website, but as I have embedded the report on the website I do not want to show the authentication prompt, but I know that the anonymous authentication in SSRS 2016, I would like know how I can solve this.
I mean window authentication, when you try to remotely access the Report Server, it shows you the window prompt, when I have that report embedded in my website, it will do the same to ask me for the window password, and I will I want to connect anonymously, but sql server 2016 does not allow anonymous authenticationenter image description here
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For whoever else is fashionably late: you can implement a custom authentication for anonymous access, as mentioned in the documentation:
The report server will not accept unauthenticated requests from an anonymous user, except for those deployments that include a custom authentication extension.
There is a good example by James Wu for SSRS 2008, which I got working for 2017. However, as he said:
why would you want everyone on the internet to be able to view/update/overwrite your stuff on the report server?
DO NOT USE ANONYMOUS AUTH!
NEVER USE IT IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT!
Emphasize: all (anonymous) users can then also update the settings. (You may be able to prevent this by not providing binding (or only a machine-binding) for /Reports. I am not an expert on this.)
If you still want to use it, just make sure that you adapt all the config-settings correctly, and update IAuthenticationExtension to IAuthenticationExtension2 with an extra method:
public void GetUserInfo(IRSRequestContext requestContext, out IIdentity userIdentity, out IntPtr userId)
{
userIdentity = new GenericIdentity("Dummy user");
userId = IntPtr.Zero;
}
For compilation I also had to include C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services\SSRS\ReportServer\bin\Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces.dll (there does not seem to be an official Nuget).
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I am having trouble creating a custom authenticator for ADFS v4 on Windows Server 2019. My goal is to create a custom primary authenticator but right now I'd settle for getting a custom authenticator to work as an additional authentication provider. I followed this article by Microsoft and although it states the tutorial is for 2012, it's supposed to work for 2019 as well. I apologize if what follows comes across as a stream-of-consciousness but I'm fairly new to this and may have multiple things wrong with my implementation.
Initial struggles
When I follow the directions from Microsoft, I'm able to see the authenticator in the list of primary authenticators and select it. However, when I go through my authentication process the code never fires. I am never presented with the custom HTML fragment in the project. If I understand the code from this example correctly, I should be able to set the authenticator as primary and only get the HTML from my authenticator. The best I am able to do is get the friendly name to show up in a list of possible authenticators if more than one primary authenticator is selected.
/// Returns a Dictionary containing the set of localized friendly names of the provider, indexed by lcid.
/// These Friendly Names are displayed in the "choice page" offered to the user when there is more than
/// one secondary authentication provider available.
public Dictionary<int, string> FriendlyNames
{
get
{
Dictionary<int, string> _friendlyNames = new Dictionary<int, string>();
_friendlyNames.Add(new CultureInfo("en-us").LCID, "Matt's Friendly name in the Meatadata Class");
_friendlyNames.Add(new CultureInfo("fr").LCID, "Friendly name translated to fr locale");
return _friendlyNames;
}
}
If I click my custom authenticator it just errors and I get an entry in the ADFS event log that says it cannot find the specified user. I thought that by using the custom it would bypass any Active Directory lookup but apparently it's still doing the lookup and I'm never presented with my custom login page.
Then I added logging
I logged every method in my code to the Windows event log and for a little bit I would get a message that the program entered the OnAuthenticationPipelineLoad method.
public void OnAuthenticationPipelineLoad(IAuthenticationMethodConfigData configData)
{
//this is where AD FS passes us the config data, if such data was supplied at registration of the adapter
myNewLog.WriteEntry("Matt -> this is where AD FS passes us the config data, if such data was supplied at registration of the adapter");
}
Unfortunately, this stopped working at some point and I can't get it back so it's like the code isn't even making it to here any more.
Microsoft's example doesn't even work
I scrounged GitHub looking for other people who had done this and found Microsoft's example provider. Unfortunately, Microsoft's code doesn't work either so it must be something that I have configured wrong but I don't know where to look.
Then I tried making it the secondary authenticator
I tried setting my custom authenticator as secondary but the code never fires in this case either.
Suspicions
Before my logging stopped working, I thought the code might have an issue with the AuthenticationMethods metadata.
/// Returns an array of strings containing URIs indicating the set of authentication methods implemented by the adapter
/// AD FS requires that, if authentication is successful, the method actually employed will be returned by the
/// final call to TryEndAuthentication(). If no authentication method is returned, or the method returned is not
/// one of the methods listed in this property, the authentication attempt will fail.
public virtual string[] AuthenticationMethods
{
get {
myNewLog.WriteEntry("Matt -> AuthenticationMethods");
return new[] { "https://example.com/myauthenticationmethod1" }; }
}
I found hints that this could be an issue here and here. It says "IAuthenticationAdapterMetadata: defines adapter metadata including its name and the type(s) of authentication it supports" and "Both the Global and Relying Party MFA AdditionalAuthenticationRules claim rule sets are executed. (Box C). If the output claim set of either rule set contains a claim of type "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/authenticationmethod" and value "http://schemas.microsoft.com/claims/multipleauthn", then MFA will engage."
Question
I guess I don't know what I should even ask as my question. Has anyone created a custom ADFS authenticator before and seen this problem? Is there something obvious that I can check that could be causing this?
This turned out to be a two-part problem and was party caused by my lack of domain knowledge.
Secondary authenticator fix
My issues with using my code as a secondary authenticator had to do with setting the claims rules. This is the power shell script that the tutorial had me run:
Set-AdfsRelyingPartyTrust –TargetRelyingParty $rp –AdditionalAuthenticationRules 'c:[type == "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2012/01/insidecorporatenetwork", value == "false"] => issue(type = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/authenticationmethod", value = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/claims/multipleauthn" );'
My problem was that I was testing from inside my network as opposed to outside my network so the script was wrong for me. Once I edited the rule to force MFA for internal users, my code successfully hit.
Set-AdfsRelyingPartyTrust –TargetRelyingParty $rp –AdditionalAuthenticationRules 'c:[type == "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2012/01/insidecorporatenetwork", value == "true"] => issue(type = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/authenticationmethod", value = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/claims/multipleauthn" );'
Primary authenticator fix
As it turns out, I cannot use my code as a primary authenticator in the way I was trying to. ADFS only allows you to authenticate against the AD identity provider. The message "cannot find the specified user" in the ADFS event log was a result of trying to bypass the step that sets the user. Since I did not want to query Active Directory for my user, I would then get an error that the authenticator could not find the specified user...makes sense.
What I actually needed was a different identity provider. For my relying party trust in ADFS, I needed to specify an identity provider other than Active Directory. I found an example of this here. This solution uses identity server 3 hosted in an asp.net site as an identity provider. By using this solution, I was able to manually set the claims for the current user.
This solution uses identity server 3 which is outdated and ideally you would use the currently supported identity server 4. However, the ws-federation part of identity server 4 has moved behind a pay wall.
I still had a problem with my relying party trust since they would be presented with multiple identity providers (or claims providers as ADFS calls them) when users came to our site from the relying party. To prevent this screen from showing up, you can set your identity server as the default claims provider for your relying party.
Set-AdfsRelyingPartyTrust -TargetName "Relying Party" -ClaimsProviderName ("IdentityServer")
Additional notes
There is a good write on what identity server is and the problem it is trying to solve here
There is also an open source repo for filling in the ws-federation piece of identity server 4 here which I did not use
We are trying using devexpress xaf framework to develop a system but We couldn't provide a new user to register on the system. we tried their example from
OBSOLETE - How to manage users (register a new user, restore a password, etc.) from the logon form in ASP.NET.we have successfully run the the system on the example, but on the register window says protected content and cannot enter User Name, Password and Email.
Note that this old example is no longer recommended.
Anyway, you can customize your code as described at https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/T705146/e4037-register-and-forget-password-functionality-for-the-web-for-v18-2-4 - this will help you avoid this behavior.
I'm trying to connect my current MS Access forms to SharePoint online. I was able to fetch and feed data without any problem. My only problem is that I want to share the front end to multiple users, but I also need to create a login form to check whether they have access to SharePoint online or not.
Is there a way to add a username/password to the below connection string?
"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;WSS;IMEX=2;RetrieveIds=Yes;DATABASE=https://CompanySharepoint.com/Lists/;"
Nope.
Access will determine if the user is able to login using integrated authentication. This means that users that don't have access to SharePoint won't be able to access the lists.
Depending on your SharePoint config, they might get an error message, or might get a prompt asking them for a username and password. As long as you're cleaning the cache properly, they won't be able to access any data if they have no permission to view the data on SharePoint.
In my Java web application,when a user gets logged in,i store the user name and other details in session as follows,
session.setAttribute("userName",username);
I am using ExtJs4 for UI.How to get the session variables in extJs?
Thanks
I can second #Geronimo approach. You need to get user Id and/or permissions when you authenticate the user. However...
You can't rely just on the username/permissions that you store somewhere in your JS code because it can't be easily spoofed. If you present user with some information that can be different for different levels of access you still need to do server side validation of the user identity.
You can't get session variables off the server web container using javascript only.
I do the same thing (storing userId as a session variable in java). I use Ext.Request to perform an Ajax request to a java servlet to get it (along with other data about the user like permission settings for the webapp to enable or disable features they wouldn't be able to use).
EDIT:
I second sha's answer also, the only reason I pass the authentication information back to the client is for cosmetic reasons - so that user doesn't think he can use a feature in javascript that would be denied by my server side authentication. If he were to spoof the userId or permissions and try to use the feature, the real authentication on the server side would stop him.
I understand that the question has been asked for a long time ago, but despite the large number of views and the absence of an plain answer, I decided to offer this answer:
Assume that the session variable is registered like /index.php?PHPSESSID=9ebca8bd62c830d3e79272b4f585ff8f
In this case, you can get the variable PHPSESSID through JS object "location" and transform it through Ext.Object.fromQueryString()
So:
console.log( Ext.Object.fromQueryString( location.search ) );
will prepare PHPSESSID variable for your needs.
I am creating a new Silverlight 4 business application using RIA services. This will be using a SQL-Server 2005 DB. There is no AD setup so I am required to use SQL Server Authentication. The details that the user uses to login to the system will be used to hit the SQL Server.
E.g., if username="TestUser" and password="Password" is entered in the login screen of the application, these will be the credentials that will be used to access the DB.
I am wondering what the best way to do this will be? At this point the method of accessing the DB is undecided (EF or 'traditional' ADO.NET using stored procs).
I think current applications take the username and password entered into the login screen, use them to build a connection string and see if they can hit the DB using this, if it works they're in, if not they're declined.
I ended up going with EF and changing the AuthenticationServices Login() method to attempt to hit the database with the required username and password.
I wrote a blog post about how I Dynamically changed connection string for EF