I have a jhipster generated monolithic application with Java bakend and React Frontend.
Now I am building up the api (backend) and want to test the endpoints with postman.
Too access protected ressources for example access only allwod with role USER, so I need to pass the acces token in the Authorizations Header of the request in Postman.
How can I get such a User Token from auth0 to put that token into Postman?
I tried to find answer but was not able to.
You can create an access token using Auth0's CLI:
auth0 test token -a https://<your-auth0-domain>/api/v2/
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Based on the diagram you can see above (Oauth authrization flow). Reference https://youtu.be/oKzeHshquCs?t=1949
Using user credentials (username, password), we are attempting to
get an authorization code (login).
Authorization code received.
Using the received authorization code we are now requesting an
access token.
When access token is given. This access token will be
now used to access the resource server (as Bearer Token).
I would like to ask how to implement this using API, using the latest implementation of OAuth2. Using custom REST API's on the Authorization Server.
Scenario: using two api's ('/auth/code' then ''auth/token'')
Using user credentials (username, password) the user will request on
api '/auth/code', where authorization_code as the response.
Using the recieved authorization code (from #1), we will request an access
token on '/auth/token'. Access token will be used as bearer token on
the authorization server.
Or if we can do this two step (#1 and #2 above) on one API process (auth/token) would also be great.
Do you have any working project in regards with this?
I have explored the code of Baeldung, but based on this implementation, it is still using the default implementation of spring security. It would be my great pleasure if there are Senpai's out there can help me with this. Thanks :)
There's no such API to get an authorization code directly passing the user credentials. Usually, there would be an API (/as/authorization), which redirects the user to the login page. Once the user enters his credentials, he will be redirected to the target application with the authorization code in code as the query parameter of the URL. (You need to configure your app's URL as a redirect URL or callback URL in the Identity provider)
This code is usually short-lived and can't be used more than a time. (i.e) You can use this code only once to get an access token. When you exchange the code with an access token, you should be seeing refresh_token (if you granted access to refresh_token grant_type in the IdP) as well with which you can request tokens in the future.
You need to configure all these things in an Identity Provider. This could be PingIdentity, Auth0, etc.
Make a call to /as/authorization API
Once user enters his credentials and redirected to the target application, extract the code from the query parameter and make a call to token API (oauth/token) to get access_token and refresh_token
Once the access_token is expired, use the refresh_token to get a new access_token (grant_type should be refresh_token).
Once the refresh_token is expired, you need to again get the authorization_code again with the /as/authorization API.
I am trying to set up authentication server for spring boot application. I have multiple microservices application. Let say hospitals, patients, reports applications. I have each of microservices service application to be authenticated before allowing user to access the resources.
Can I know how can I have common authentication logic as a separate application. let say authentication application. I am planning to us (spring security with Auth 2.0 and JWT token).
For example:
When user tries access hospital dashboard page, we will check the user is authenticated
First we need to check whether user is authentication if not I need
to redirect to login service in authentication application.
Once user is logged in, then when he try to access dashboard we will
check the token is valid. If valid then allow user to access the
dashboard service.
Now user try to access patient details which is there in patient.war as a separate project, as the user already logged in we need to valid token, then we need to allow access to resources API what he is trying to access. If token is invalid then we need to redirect to login page.
Question:
I have gone through some example they have authentication server and resource server as separate application. i.e #EnableAuthenticationServer and #EnableResourceServer. But I have noted this got deprecated in latest spring boot version if I am right. Please correct me if I am wrong.
How can I have authentication functionality as common war file and let the other resource server access it before allowing the user to access the reset service API?
Which is the right way to build a microservice application?
I need some experts help to understand the best approach we need to implement authentication and authorization in latest spring boot version.
This is a relatively older question but I'll answer since it may help others.
For any microservices-based architecture, the api gateway is an important aspect and it should be there.
All your microservices will be hiding behind the gateway and any calls made to the downstream services (hospitals, patients etc) will go through the gateway.
This gives you multiple advantages.
You can add login (authentication) functionality in the gateway
You can put rate limiter to avoid DOS attacks
A single point of entry for the outside world so your clients don't neet to know the URL of each microservice
Now, the way it works is:
The client sends username/password or client_id/client_secret to the /login endpoint which is inside the gateway (for example GatewayController)
Gateway sends credentials to an "Auth-Service" which authenticates the user from a db or anywhere and creates a JWT (Oauth token)
Gateway returns the jwt back to the client
Client calls the, let's say, /patients endpoint through gateway with the jwt as header "Authorization" parameter
Gateway -> Auth-Service (To validate the token)
If invalid, 403 forbidden is sent. Otherwise, request is forwarded to the downstream service (in this case Patients-Service)
Patients-Service sends the jwt token to Auth-Service to get permissions from inside the token since we know that the token has already been validated.
Once the permissions list is received, the Patients-Service matches them with the permissions mentioned on each api (for example PatientsController)
If any permission matches, the response is served. If not, 403 forbidden is served.
To make it more clear, Auth-Service is called once when the call is for login(authentication). Auth-Service is called twice for all other api calls(validate + permissions).
When i am trying to get access token through client credentials flow in okta ,i have got sucessfully,but by using that access token i am not able to fetch any user details.Like the code below
token.getTokenAttributes().get("uid").toString();
The above token object is jwtAuthenticationToken Which is used in web application.
i am using spring-boot okta
The Client Credentials flow is intended for server-side (confidential) client applications with no end user, which normally describes machine-to-machine communication.
It wouldn't have user context and it won’t have a user tied to the access token.
We have a java application that is using Keycloak/Redhat SSO to login.
This application needs to provide a link in one of the jsp that redirects to a page in another Java EE application running on Jboss on a different server, and pass it the form data.
The second app is not using keycloak or SSO
We are thinking to pass the jwt token that we receive from keycloak to the second application. This token should have the userid and some other information that will allow the second app to check the role of that userid from the database and create a session cookie then forward them to the page without forwarding them to login page.
We got the authentication with Keycloak done in the first app and I have a userPrincipal object in my httpServletRequest.userPrincipal in the first app
I am not sure how to pass the principal or jwt token from the jsp on app1 to app2.
I looked at response.sendredirect() and setHeader but it doesn't seem to work when it's received on app2
What would be the best way to send this jwt token other than in a form parameter ?
should we serialize it and send it as json string ? Because if we send the token string itself it's encrypted and not sure how to decrypt it on the other app.
Thank you
I'm building a backend for my Android app using GAE, and I'd like to authenticate users with their Google accounts, sent from the Android app.
Before OAuth2, you were able to use a Cookie retrieved from the _ah/login endpoint to authenticate users into your web app, but that method is deprecated and I'd like to be able to use the updated OAuth2 method.
In my Android app I've been able to generate a JSON Web Token using the following line:
String jwt = GoogleAuthUtil.getToken(FamiliarActivity.this, Plus.AccountApi.getAccountName(mGoogleApiClient), "audience:server:client_id:1234567.apps.googleusercontent.com");
or an OAuth token:
String oauth2 = GoogleAuthUtil.getToken(FamiliarActivity.this, Plus.AccountApi.getAccountName(mGoogleApiClient), "oauth2:server:client_id:1234567.apps.googleusercontent.com:api_scope:https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login");
Either, manually, I can pass to my API and validate against Google. But I haven't been able to figure out a way to use a token like this to trigger authentication in GAE like the Cookie used to. The documentation seems to indicate passing it as a header: Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN> but that doesn't seem to work.
What is the correct way to retrieve and pass a token to my GAE endpoint so that it authenticates the user?
The correct and documented way to accomplish this is to:
1) Create an OAuth protected endpoint with the
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login
or
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
scope and authorized Client ID for the Android client app.
2) Generate client library and integrate with your app.