I am currently building an android application for my final year degree project but at the moment I have very basic login functionality.
At the moment it is just a username and password stored in a MySQL server, the program fires off a request which runs some PHP to check to see if the username exists in the table and the password is correct. This won't be anywhere near secure enough, I just wanted a placeholder while I got on with other parts of the app.
I've been looking at existing frameworks which can provide secure authentication/authorization as well as session management so the user doesn't have to constantly log on whenever they re-open the app. Apache Shiro (https://shiro.apache.org/) sounds like a potential solution but I've had a good search on Google but haven't found any examples in which it is used for Android projects.
Does anyone know if it is possible to use it for Android Apps? Or if there are any decent alternatives?
Thanks,
Mike
A security service is deployed in a "remote" machine (the server). Your Android app (the client), when a user tries to login, sends a POST to a "/login" endpoint exposed by the server. If successful it will reply with a cookie that the client will use in the further request to identify its session. It is not difficult with a maven project Spring and Shiro libraries, but you need to implement at least a simple WebApp (expose /login, use shiro to verify the credential) deployed in a separate server. If you are ready to write two java app Shiro is a good choice.
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I have a java application running on tomcat server which uses JAAS authentication to configure the app among three users (superadmin, admin, customer).
Now, I have to integrate the app with SAML just for the end-user (customer).
I've gone through a lot of blogs and videos related to it. But everything involves a build tool within.
Whereas this app has been built manually through console (without IDE). It would be very helpful if you could provide me with an example to refer to meeting my requirements.
I have 2 application one in ASP.net and 2nd in Java. I need to create login for the applications.
If user is logged into one application he need to be automatically logged into 2nd application too. How can I do this?
Thanks in advance..
You need to find an SSO solution that can be integrated with your ASP.net application, presenting you with plugins and extensions that can interact with that SSO server. There are many options available for you to evaluate, such as Shibboleth, ADFS, CAS, etc. The specifics of the SSO server deployment as well as the integration with each application depends on your choice of deployment and likely is beyond the scope of this question.
I have been having trouble getting a SSO service on Bluemix to work for an existing app on Bluemix that I have inherited.
The app previously had the older version of SSO working which came into action when a user selected an admin link to sign in as an administrator. But this obviously stopped working when the new version of SSO arrived. So I set up the new SSO service for the app, boarded the tool with the SSO provisioner tool, and configured and binded the SSO service to my Bluemix app.
It now looks like this is working - I get the Open ID sign in page, but then it goes no further and does not move onto the landing page/URL that is set up in the service.
Is there any further coding on the application that needs to take place? Looking at any of the docs in Bluemix it says there is no furhter coding needed for Liberty for Java apps....but I'm not so sure...
Any help with getting this to work correctly would be greatly appreciated.
What Identity Provider do you use? This tutorial might help- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/security/library/se-bluemix-secure-apps-single-sign-on/se-bluemix-secure-apps-single-sign-on-pdf.pdf
We want to realize a SSO-infrastructure with some IBM Domino / Websphere products and one custom web application. All IBM products are configured for SSO. Therefore, the WebSphere Application Server 8 generates an LTPAToken2 after successful login in one of the IBM products. We want to achieve the same behaviour for our own custom web application. After login into this web app, a LTPAToken2 should be generated.
Therefore my question: Is it possible to generate a valid LTPAToken2 in our custom web application? Or maybe, is it possible to use the WebSphere Application Server APIs for this generation? Which steps would be nessecary to achieve this? At the moment, our custom web application is not hosted in a WAS, but on a Tomcat.
Thanks and best regards
Ben
As long as you have your application hosted on a tomcat server that is not possible. There is no open API from IBM for creating LTPA tokens.
If you would have had the same user directory and using standard Java Security Mechanisms you could move your application to WAS, where SSO is configured. Not only would it be possible, your LTPA tokens would be created on login to your web application without any further configuration.
As it seems have a solution with two different user directories, sharing the same user id but not the password, you need to take other measures to achieve SSO.
One is to have an Access manager software which handles login for all your applications,
A second solution is to write some custom code. Login into the tomcat server could generate a custom cookie. You need to write code to generate this cookie. Then you can write a TAI to intercept it on the WebSphere server thus accepting the login. The TAI would be configured in the container rather than in a separate application itself. (example)
I also assume you could solve this by writing servlet filters to handle the login, rather than a TAI.
If your Tomcat app is on the same domain as (one of) the WebSphere servers, and the Tomcat server has network access to the WebSphere instance, you could have a servlet in your Tomcat app accept credentials on its request and pass them in an outbound http request to something like /<secured app>/j_security_check on the WAS instance, record the LtpaToken2 if successful and then add a cookie with its value in the servlet response on Tomcat.
As long as the two servers are on the same domain the browser will send the cookie back if the Tomcat app links/redirects the user to a secured URI on the WAS app, and you have SSO.
We would like to implement following logon mechanism to authenticate users against AD between Java and .NET applications hosted in different application containers.
Our server setup is
One linux web server with Tomcat on it - this is where our java apps resides
One windows web server with IIS on it - this is where the legacy .net apps resides. [authentication can be done via windows integrated authentication - we don't want to change this - unless no other way]
One domain controller - win 2008
Our aim is to implement authentication mechanism where any user can login through a form via AD [Active Directory] credentials to our login page which is hosted either on .NET or Java. After authentication is completed successfully,user should browse pages without
his/her credentials being asked again.
Reason we need it is we have couple .Net apps which design to use integrated authentication with IIS - and we are designing new Java interfaces where we would like to centralize authentication with a login form where user can login agains AD and switch between .NET and Java apps where the authentication is still valid until it expires or etc.
I heard about SPNEGO project but not sure what kind of setup we need to implement above scenario.
It would be nice if we need no modification to .NET site setup since we don't want to maintain those apps anymore. All helps are welcome and greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
ED