How openDS and openAM can be configured together to authenticate data.... ?
Is this possible that openDS is installed on some other machine on network and openAM is using it and if yes then how?
What is the use of LDAP here?
What is the use web agent and policy agents?
Please help me to find answers of these questions....
These questions are the basis of OpenAM and I recommend that you read some introduction materials about OpenAM. A good reference is the OpenAM book published by PacktPub : https://www.packtpub.com/openam/book.
OpenAM is embedding OpenDS as its configuration datastore, and can leverage OpenDS (or ForgeRock led OpenDJ, the continued open source LDAP directory project derived from OpenDS) as the user data store. In both cases, OpenAM interacts with OpenDS using LDAP, as OpenDS is an LDAP directory server.
OpenAM Installation guide describes installation of OpenAM with OpenDS/OpenDJ as the User datastore installed on a different machine: http://openam.forgerock.org/doc/install-guide/OpenAM-Install-Guide.html
Web agents and policy agents are software agents that are installed on Web applications to communicate with the OpenAM service and provide Authentication and Authorization.
Kind regards,
Ludovic.
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We have an application running on Tomcat currently and using LDAP as the means to authenticate users to our enterprise AD.
It is required to migrate this application to cloud (on AWS EC2) and to integrate with ADFS over SAML for login with MFA enabled.
Wondering if there are any guides on the the steps to be followed to make this happen ? What are the configurations that I need to enable in ADFS for my application and what configuration changes are needed on tomcat server.xml to have the connector integrate with ADFS rather than LDAP. Thanks.
Regards,
Raunak
Not a Tomcat guru but from the point of view of ADFS and SAML:
You need to use a client-side SAML stack in your application. This provides the SAML plumbing.
You then need to add a SAML RP to ADFS.
For MFA, typically you use Azure AD to provide the MFA.
(There used to be an on-premises ADFS MFA Server - that is now deprecated).
If that is not an option, there are third-party providers.
For a 1 day project (call it a hackathon) we will be looking into replacing a custom built authentication and authorization system with one that we can buy.
After all, there are people who are better at this stuff than we are.
Non-cloud, hard requirement is on-premise installation possible
Can authenticate against Active Directory using LDAP
Can authenticate using SAML against ADFS
Management of users, roles etc without a directory is an option (most likely option to actually use during the hackathon)
Use open standards, SAML, OpenID, OAuth2
There are so many SAML-based products, but many are cloud-only, which unfortunately for us is not an option (reason: our products run on closed enterprise networks), so services like Okta are unfortunately not an option :(
The following list is quite complete, but doesn't give me any indication on how hard it is to install + get up and running in a few hours:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML-based_products_and_services
Any suggestions for products to try?
My eye caught these ones:
miniOrange, Ping Identity, 10duke
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I am using a Java stack for web apps.
How to build and run Shibboleth SAML IdP and SP using Docker container at GitHub repository provides the instruction on building a SAML-based Authentication/Authorization Provider using Shibboleth SAML IdP and OpenLDAP.
Shibboleth SAML IdP is responsible for identity federation.
OpenLDAP is responsible for identity authentication.
I have validated SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) provided by Docker-running Shibboleth SAML IdP (Identity Provider) and OpenLDAP for the following enterprise applications. In other words, I leveraged Docker-running Shibboleth SAML IdP and OpenLDAP to log in to the following enterprise applications successfully.
Microsoft Office 365
Google G Suite
Salesforce
Dropbox
Box
Amazon AWS
OpenStack
Citrix NetScaler
VMware vCloud Director
Oracle NetSuite
Another StackOverflow question Setting up a new Shibboleth IdP to work with an existing SAML SP discusses the SAML configuration between IdP and SP.
OpenLDAP is not OpenID Connect or OAuth 2.0
Have a look at identityserver4.
It's OpenID Connect / OAuth2 by design and it does have a plug-in SAML stack.
Or if you have a Windows server, use ADFS.
FOSS - Shibboleth or KeyCloak
The definition of 'closed' (network) might be interesting to examine. No access to outside at all, not on any port, noway/nohow? In that case, yes, you want an on-prem service. If there's gated access to outside, it's likely that many hosted identity services could work.
Hie Please explain which to use when, OpenDS OpenDJ OpenAM. Thanks.
OpenDJ is an open source project building LDAP and REST base Directory Services. OpenDJ is continuing in open source the development of OpenDS, a project that was started by Sun Microsystems, but abandoned by Oracle.
OpenAM is an open source Authentication, Authorization, Web Single Sign On, Federation solution that is flexible, extensible and highly scalable. For its configuration management, OpenAM embeds OpenDJ. For its user stores, it relies on LDAP directory servers, and is very well integrated with OpenDJ.
[Disclosure: I am product manager at ForgeRock, the company that supports and commercializes OpenDJ and OpenAM]
OpenAM is entirely different from that of OpenDJ or OpenDS. Let me clear all your doubts:
OpenAM is an open source access management and federation server platform, backed by ForgeRock. It was sponsored by ForgeRock until 2016.Now it is supported by Open Identity Platform Community.
What exactly OpenAM is ?
OpenAM provides a service called access management, which manages
access to resources, such as a web page, an application, or web
service, available over the network. Once it is set up, OpenAM
provides an infrastructure for managing users, roles, and access to
resources.
It centralizes access control by handling both authentication
(Confirming the identity) and authorization (Determining whether
to grant access to someone who has authenticated).
When you dive deep inside this beautiful service you will find,You can secure your resources and customize it through Open Access Policy and can implement social authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication ,Account Lockout, Single Sign-On etc. and can define Authorization policies in no time .
Moving on to OpenDJ ..
OpenDJ is a directory server which implements a wide range of
“Lightweight Directory Access Protocol” (LDAP) and also have
support for “Directory Service Markup Language” (DSML). OpenDJ is
written in Java language.
It was an internal project started by Sun Microsystems, which is now maintained by ForgeRock.
Let me help you with those big terms like LDAP and Directory :
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (also known as LDAP) is an application protocol.
This protocol is used specifically for querying data as well as modifying said data.This is performed by using directory services –that is, a software system that stores, organises, and provides access to the information that is in a directory.
Conclusion:
OpenAM regulates who can access what resource ,when and under what condition while OpenDJ is the high-performance,Highly-available and
secure store for identities managed by the organization.
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We have several custom developed online applications as well as open source application such as KOHA, moodle and bugzilla.
We are attempting to integrate their authentication using a Single Sign-On service. So far we have tried JASIG CAS and this seems to solve most of our issues.
However we would also like to link the authentication to an LDAP compatible directory service.
My questions are:
1. Why do we need to use CAS with LDAP?
2. Can a LDAP only service work? (all of our application either directly supports LDAP or can be modified to work with LDAP)
3. Assuming CAS is running on a MySQL database, can LDAP compatible sysmtem such as Active Directory, contact the CAS server to login?
With CAS, you centralize your security in one place, instead of having each application integrated with your LDAP
Yes, it's generally more work and a lot less secure (see 1)
CAS relies on your LDAP for authentication, applications connected to CAS benefit from SSO, but applications can directly authenticate users via your LDAP (without SSO)
I know glassfish can authenticate against an LDAP server, I also know it can authenticate against my own database. What I would like to do is authenticate users against LDAP, but get their roles from my own database.
Where would I start learning how to create my own custom authentication module?
HERE is the step-by-step instructions of how to do this.
See the Glassfish security FAQ, specifically "How do I write/configure my own login module and plug it into GlassFish?"
and this sun document