I am building an android application which communicates with the web server on apache tomcat. Web server build in JAVA EE. Currently for authentication and authorization I am using username , password and for managing the session I am using tokens. So when the user logs in I will check mysql database and authenticate the user. When the user tries to do some action , based on the token the sent , I will identify the user and authorize to do that action based on the privileges given to that user. It looks bit cumbersome . I was wondering is there any standard framework which make this task easy.
Is there any tomcat container level authentication and authorization possible , so the request won't reach the web application if its not authorized to do the action ?
Or else Is there any framework which provides standard authentication and authorization in web application ?
Apache Shiro is what you are looking for:
Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework
that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session
management. With Shiro’s easy-to-understand API, you can quickly and
easily secure any application – from the smallest mobile applications
to the largest web and enterprise applications.
I used Spring security (version 3) in couples of projects, the shortcoming was the size of jars you need to deploy (it is Spring!), it's was cumbersome.
Also I have integrated Apache Shiro with magnolia-cms, as far as I can say Apache Shiro has the strength of Spring Security with the ease of use.
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Using Angular JS for my front-end and Spring MVC for web services. Based on SOA architecture, front end and back end are loosely coupled.
I want to use Windows Authentication to login in the web application without asking any username and password in the login page.
I am getting struck in Spring Security Kerberos and want to authenticate from the LDAP and then Use Spring JWT oAuth protocol to continue further.
Can someone help where am I missing or what will be the robust way for this architecture.
P.S. : Spring MVC + Angular JS
High level: If your doing the authentication via the Internet i.e where you don't have access to get Kerberos tickets via Spring Security, you need to consider using SAML or OAuth. Otherwise if you have local access and can talk directly to the authentication servers from your server hosting your code you can use Kerberos.
SAML and OAuth are very different to LDAP and Kerberos. Kerberos and LDAP can generally only be used if you have direct access to the authentication servers, i.e when are you in the same windows domain.
For further help please post code samples and an outline of what your trying to achieve.
I'm trying to write a small servlet which is a plugin in a WebSphere application on Linux. The servlet will make web services calls to a service hosted on a Windows server that's part of an AD domain & uses Integrated authentication.
I'll be using JAX-WS and would like to use WS-Security with Kerberos Token authentication. The Kerberos authentication is being mandated by the Windows service because it relies on Windows Auth - something I can't change.
The authentication will be for a single service account in the AD domain - an account dedicated to the servlet which is permissioned within the AD domain.
Does anyone have some pointers on this? I've read the sg247771 (Implementing Kerberos on WAS), but can't locate a scenario which matches the above - same for the WAS docs online. I suspect I'm just missing something obvious. Alternatively any other docs that would explain the configuration I'm after would be great. It's entirely possible that my googling skills have failed and I'm using completely the wrong keywords.....!
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.
I'm have the next scenario on my enviroment
Tomcat running as services in Windows server
The service is configured with a Domain Account, it is an Active Directory Account.
Now in a Spring Controller I need to acces to a site, this site is configured with Integrated Security.
So what I want is to access to this site using the same credentials that is running the tomcat account. So I'm beleave thath I need to access to this credentials and pass it to a http client.
Thanks.
There's a number of ways you can integrate a Java application into an Active Directory / Windows Authentication system:
I would start by understanding the Kerberos and NTLM authentication systems (and which apply to your environment) and reading up on the documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/net/http-auth.html
Given you are using Spring already, I would strongly consider using Spring Security, which has NTLM support: http://blog.mediasoft.be/ntlm-with-spring-security-20/
Spring Security, JOSSO, CAS, etc, cares about authentication and authorization.
In most cases admin applications are very similar.
There are schemas for JDBC data sources, but there arent front-ends.
For example:
http://www.josso.org/confluence/display/JOSSO1/Database+Setup or http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/docs/3.0.x/reference/springsecurity-single.html#appendix-schema
Does anybody know a beautiful and tested third part web admin app to CRUD users and roles on Single Sign On?
Would the Central Authentication Service project (CAS) fit the bill? It is a Java server that enables single server authentication in large multi-server application environments. It has a documented protocol that allows multiple servers to share the same authentication environment.
It includes a number of integration points. Servers in the authentication environment can use spring security integration to obtain the current authentication credentials from a CAS server. The CAS server itself can provide a login service. The CAS server can also integrate into common user databases such as LDAP/ActiveDirectory.