I was wondering if it is possible to implement with openiddict a delegation grant type similar to the one implemented here with Identity Server.
var result = await _validator.ValidateAccessTokenAsync(userToken);
if (result.IsError)
{
context.Result = new GrantValidationResult(TokenRequestErrors.InvalidGrant);
return;
}
Is there any equivalent method to ValidateAccessTokenAsync in openiddict in order to validate the token and access some of its properties?
Implementation of standard token exchange is tracked by https://github.com/openiddict/openiddict-core/issues/1249.
In the meantime, you can override the default ValidateTokenParameter handler to work with your custom grant and extract the access token from the customer parameter you use:
https://github.com/openiddict/openiddict-core/blob/422d8979adb8cdebc6c8c8e14faa1d736208271e/src/OpenIddict.Server/OpenIddictServerHandlers.cs#L168
Then, you can call the IOpenIddictServerDispatcher.DispatchAsync() method with an instance of ProcessAuthenticationContext to trigger an authentication event. If IsRejected is true, this means the token is not valid. Otherwise, you'll be able to access its claims principal.
I'm using the adapter based authentication for protecting resources as well as managing the entire authentication logic (credentials validation).
If the user/password validation passed successfully, the WL.Server.setActiveUser method is called to create an authenticated session for the Realm, with user data stored in a userIdentity object.
The user/password validation process returns OK/Fail and also a cookie if the validation passed. And this cookie should be sent on the following adapter calls, so I'm adding it into the userIdentity data object as well.
My idea was to store it within the userIdentity object, since it can be retrieved on the others adapters (var userIdentity = WL.Server.getActiveUser();) for adding the cookie value into the adapter's request header and it works properly!
What's the problem? The adapter response can contain a new value for this cookie, so I should update the userIdentity object for replacing the cookie's old value by the new value.
Nevertheless, the userIdentity object is immutable so it always contains the original cookie the login process got.
Is there a way for updating the userIdentity object? Otherwise, how can I manage a mutable table for saving and updating a cookie linked to each user session in order to send it on the adapter request to the Backend?
Is there a better way to manage this backend cookie required on each user adapter request?
Many thanks!
Sergi
PS: There is a question that tries to solve this but the possible answer is not valid to me (IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 6.3: Can we edit the custom attributes of User Identity Object [MobileFirst Session]):
I have tried the following code for updating the userIdentity:
var newUserIdentity = {
userId: userIdentity.userId,
attributes: {
cookies: newValue
}
};
WL.Server.setActiveUser(realm, null);
WL.Server.setActiveUser(realm, newUserIdentity);
But when it's retrieved from another adapter (var userIdentity = WL.Server.getActiveUser()), it contains the original value!
You could remove the userIdentity (WL.Server.setActiveUser("realm", null);), and then set a new active user object.
If you can depend on HTTP Sessions (single server or sticky sessions), you can access the session object and store whatever you want. (WL.Server.getClientRequest().getSession())
If you do not want to use HTTP sessions, you can use an external storage mechanism such as SQL or Cloudant to store that information. You can use the Client-ID as the identifier (see example https://ibm.biz/BdXUHt).
I am already using a custom authentication provider in my ServiceStack based web services application.
I'm overriding the Authenticate method, and validating my user against one of multiple backend tenant databases. I currently determine the tenant database by matching an API key to a database string.
public override object Authenticate(
IServiceBase authService,
IAuthSession session,
Auth request) // <- custom object here, MyCustomAuth request
{
// ...
}
This works when each application is for a single tenant (a tenant/customer can build their own application and use that API key). Moving forward I want to build a multi-tenant mobile application. Thus the API key method cannot be used because I can't expect each user to type it in, hence I can't determine which tenant is using the application.
I wanted to alter the Auth object so that I could include the TenantId (provided by the user on login). However, I can't see how I can customize that object.
Is there anyway to customize that Auth object, or do I have to find an alternative solution?
You can't modify the built-in Authenticate Request DTO used, but you can use its Dictionary<string, string> Meta property to send additional metadata with the Authenticate request, e.g:
client.Post(new Authenticate {
...
Meta = new Dictionary<string,string> {
{"TenantId", tenantId},
}
}
Alternatively you can send additional info in the QueryString or HTTP Headers and access the IRequest with:
var tenantId = authService.Request.QueryString["TenantId"];
I want to implement an API key authentication solution for my WCF4 REST API.
I know that I need to make a class and derive it from ServiceAuthorizationManager and override the CheckAccessCore method. All that I understand.
But what I want to do from the CheckAccessCore pass internal information from the CheckAccessCore to my Service implementation classes. Information like "ApiKeyID, rights, flags and other details" that I looked up when doing the ApiKey authentication.
So that my services internally can use the internal ApiKeyID when it calls the domain logic.
I have seen many different ways of doing this, like
operationContext.ServiceSecurityContext.AuthorizationContext.Properties["Principal"] = p;
or
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal = principal;
HttpContext.Current.User = principal;
and other ways....
Another way you can pass along objects is by adding the object to the Properties Collection of the RequestMessage object.
IssuedToken Token = new IssuedToken()
operationContext.RequestContext.RequestMessage.Properties.Add("NameOfObj",Token);
I'm trying to integrate Spring Security in my web application. It seems pretty easy to do as long as you integrate the whole process of authentication and authorization.
However, both authentication and authorization seem so coupled that it's being very time-consuming for me to understand how I could split these processes, and get authentication independently of authorization.
The authentication process is external to our system (based on single sign-on) and this cannot be modified. Nevertheless, once the user succeeds this process, it's loaded in the session, including roles.
What we are trying to achieve is to make use of this information for the authorization process of Spring Security, that's to say, to force it to get the roles from the user session instead of picking it up through the authentication-provider.
Is there any way to achieve this?
If your authentication is already done using an SSO service, then you should use one of spring security's pre-authentication filters. Then you can specify a UserDetails service (possibly custom) that will use the pre-authenticated user principle to populate the GrantedAuthority's
SpringSecurity includes several pre-authentication filters including J2eePreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter and RequestHeaderPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter. If you can't find one that works for you, its also possible, and not that hard to write your own, provided you know where in the request your SSO implementation stuffs the data. (That depends on the implementation of course.)
Just implement the Filter interface and do something like this in the doFilter method:
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
// principal is set in here as a header or parameter. you need to find out
// what it's named to extract it
HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) request;
if (SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication() == null) {
// in here, get your principal, and populate the auth object with
// the right authorities
Authentication auth = doAuthentication(req);
SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(auth);
}
chain.doFilter(request, response);
}
Yes, it's possible. Spring Security (like most of the rest of Spring) is interface-driven so that you can plug in your own implementations selectively for different parts of the framework.
Update: Spring's authorisation and authentication mechanisms work together - the authentication mechanism will authenticate the user and insert various GrantedAuthority instances in the security context. These will then be checked by the authorisation machinery to allow/disallow certain operations.
Use nont's answer for the details on how to use pre-existing authentication. The details of how you get the details from your session (e.g. roles ) will of course depend on your specific setup. But if you put in the GrantedAuthority instances derived from the roles pre-populated in your session by your SSO system, you will be able to use them in your authorisation logic.
From the reference documentation (slightly edited, with my emphasis):
You can (and many users do) write
their own filters or MVC controllers
to provide interoperability with
authentication systems that are not
based on Spring Security. For example,
you might be using Container Managed
Authentication which makes the current
user available from a ThreadLocal or
JNDI location. Or you might work for a
company that has a legacy proprietary
authentication system, which is a
corporate "standard" over which you
have little control. In such
situations it's quite easy to get
Spring Security to work, and still
provide authorization capabilities.
All you need to do is write a filter
(or equivalent) that reads the
third-party user information from a
location, build an Spring
Security-specific Authentication
object, and put it onto the
SecurityContextHolder. It's quite easy
to do this, and it is a
fully-supported integration approach.
The server that handles the authentication should redirect the user to the application passing to it some kind of key (a token in CAS SSO). Then the application use the key to ask to the authentication server the username and roles associated. With this info create a security context that is passed to the authorization manager. This is a very simplified version of a SSO login workflow.
Take a look to CAS SSO and CAS 2 Architecture.
Tell me if you need more information.
we have had the same requirement where we had to use spring security for authorization purpose only. We were using Siteminder for authentication. You can find more details on how to use authorization part of spring security not authentication here at http://codersatwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/use-spring-security-for-authorization-only-not-for-authentication/
I have also added source code and test cases at http://code.google.com/p/spring-security-with-authorization-only/source/browse/
I am trying to understand CAS authentication with our own Authorization and was getting confused since the User object in Spring Security always expects the password to be filled in and we don't care about that in our scenario. After reading Surabh's post, it seems that the trick is to return a custom User object without the password filled in. I will try that out and see if it works in my case. Hopefully no other code in the chain will be expecting the Password in the User object.
I use the authorization by this:
Inject the authorization related bean into my own bean:
#Autowired
private AccessDecisionManager accessDecisionManager;
#Autowired
FilterSecurityInterceptor filterSecurityInterceptor;
Use this bean by this:
FilterInvocation fi = new FilterInvocation(rundata.getRequest(), rundata.getResponse(), new FilterChain() {
public void doFilter(ServletRequest arg0, ServletResponse arg1) throws IOException, ServletException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});
FilterInvocationDefinitionSource objectDefinitionSource = filterSecurityInterceptor.getObjectDefinitionSource();
ConfigAttributeDefinition attr = objectDefinitionSource.getAttributes(fi);
Authentication authenticated = new Authentication() {
...........
public GrantedAuthority[] getAuthorities() {
GrantedAuthority[] result = new GrantedAuthority[1];
result[0] = new GrantedAuthorityImpl("ROLE_USER");
return result;
}
};
accessDecisionManager.decide(authenticated, fi, attr);
I too did spent lot of hours investigating on how to implement custom authorization without authentication.
The authentication process is external to our system (based on single sign-on).
I have done it, as mentioned below and it Works!!! (I am sure there are many other ways to it better, but this way just suits my scenario well enough)
Scenario : User is already authenticated by external system and all information needed for authorization is present in the request
1.
Security config need to be created, enabling global method security as below.
#Configuration
#EnableWebSecurity
#EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(securedEnabled = true, prePostEnabled = true)
class SpringWebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
#Override
protected void configure(final HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
}
}
2.) Implement Spring PermissionEvaluator to authorize whether the request should be allowed or rejected
#Component
public class CustomPermissionEvaluator implements PermissionEvaluator {
public boolean authorize(final String groups, final String role) {
boolean allowed = false;
System.out.println("Authorizing: " + groups + "...");
if (groups.contains(role)) {
allowed = true;
System.out.println(" authorized!");
}
return allowed;
};
#Override
public boolean hasPermission(final Authentication authentication, final Object groups, final Object role) {
return authorize((String) groups, (String) role);
};
#Override
public boolean hasPermission(final Authentication authentication, final Serializable targetId, final String targetType, final Object permission) {
return authorize((String) targetId, (String) permission);
};
}
3.) Add MethodSecurityConfig
#Configuration
#EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(prePostEnabled = true)
public class MethodSecurityConfig extends GlobalMethodSecurityConfiguration {
#Override
protected MethodSecurityExpressionHandler createExpressionHandler() {
DefaultMethodSecurityExpressionHandler expressionHandler = new DefaultMethodSecurityExpressionHandler();
expressionHandler.setPermissionEvaluator(new CustomPermissionEvaluator());
return expressionHandler;
}
}
4.) Add #PreAuthorize in your controller as shown below. In this example, all the groups of the user are present in request header with key 'availableUserGroups'.
This is then passed on to the CustomPermissionEvaluator to verify authorization. Please note that spring automatically passes Authentication object to the method 'hasPermission'.
So in case if you want to load user and check using spring 'hasRole' method, then this can be used.
#PreAuthorize("hasPermission(#userGroups, 'ADMIN')")
#RequestMapping(value = "/getSomething")
public String getSomething(#RequestHeader(name = "availableUserGroups") final String userGroups) {
return "resource allowed to access";
}
Handling Other Scenarios :
1.) In scenario where you want to load the user before you can perform the authorization. You can use spring pre-authentication filters, and do it in a similar way.
Example link : http://www.learningthegoodstuff.com/2014/12/spring-security-pre-authentication-and.html