I need to support 3 way of authentication at the same time in the application: LDAP, Azure AD, Basic.
After few hours of googling i found that the best way to do it would be to implement 3 authentication providers and then register them with AuthenticationManagerBuilder. But the issue i stumbled into is, that i dont know how the make the Azure Ad provider. For LDAP i found an online example i can use, and based on the LDAP i could probably also make the Basic username and password provider, but havent found anything similar on Azure AD. All i have found is that, i need to add 2-3 dependencies to the project for the Azure AD and then it automagically works.
I dont understand spring security that much, so im stumped atm. Can i just trust the automagic to do everything correctly, or are there some resouces on how to create AzureADAuthenticationProvider i could use with AuthenticationManagerBuilder?
An authentication provider is an abstraction for accessing user information from LDAP, custom third-party source, database etc. it validates the user credentials.
Spring security with azure ad:
Firstly, azure ad is integrated with Spring security for secure your application.
User login through their credential and get validate by azure AD.
From azure graph API you have to access token and membership information.
Membership for role based authorization.
LDAP Authentication:
Unique LDAP or DN ,you can perform search in directory unless you know username to DNS is known in advance.
You can authenticate the user by binding that user.
Load the Number of authorities for the user.
Custom Authentication Provider:
Create own authentication (custom) with the help of authentication provider interface in which you can use
authenticate method and implementing it and make authentication object with username and password of user
Then after you can configure these authentication in spring security configuration.
Here is the Reference Link regarding Spring Security
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I want to set up an OAuth2.0 flow for users that have access to GCP.
The user will login to a web app.
Then, the OAuth2.0 flow will need to ask for the consent that will allow the app to perform things on their behalf, based on their permissions.
Therefore, the scopes that need to be requested should be those that cover their actual permissions on GCP.
Is something like that possible when it comes to OAuth2.0 and GCP?
Had you seen? https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2
Looks like that might address your question.
Separately from that link --> Yes that is something that could be done. You login via OAuth, and once authenticated that service can use GCP Service Accounts https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts to work with GCP Services.
A user can be granted permission to impersonate a service account.
A service account can be granted permission to impersonate a user account via Domain Wide Delegation (Google Workspace).
A user cannot impersonate another user. There is no mechanism to grant the required permissions.
In a GCP project you can access Google APIs using these types of credentials:
API keys
OAuth 2.0 client IDs
service accounts
So, to answer you question, using OAuth 2.0 in GCP is certainly possible.
However, without knowing what data your application needs to access, it's hard to tell if it's more appropriate to use a service account or an OAuth 2.0 client. In a GCP project, if you go to APIs and services > Credentials > CREATE CREDENTIALS > Help me choose, a wizard will guide you through the process of creating the most appropriate credential for each authentication scenario:
Lastly, when you say this:
for users that have access to GCP
Do you mean that these users have a Google account that can access the Google APIs used in your project? If that's the case, and your project doesn't need to access user's data, then a service account might be a better choice than an OAuth 2.0 consent screen. I think you could let a service account impersonate a user via Domain Wide Delegation, but please keep in mind that Google itself discourages this feature.
See also Create access credentials.
I am very new to SSO and am having trouble enabling cross company SSO. I work on a React SPA and used the MSAL React Library to implement SSO for our application. I created a non-gallery Enterprise Application in Azure, and used that subscription information to validate users on the application during login. This is all working as expected.
After providing our SAML SSO configuration to companyB, the user at companyB cannot sign on and is getting the following error...
"Selected user account does not exist in tenant 'XYZ' and cannot access the application '123-456-789' in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Please use a different account."
To me, that means I need to manually add the user who is attempting to log in, but that would negate the usefulness of integrating the two Azure ADs. I've provided all of my SAML configuration to companyB, and still no luck. What could I be missing?
In order to create the link between the two Azure ADs, the user just needs to create a non gallery application with SAML SSO enabled and the SAML config, right? Any insight into this issue would be greatly appreciated!
I realized my code was configured to only work for one tenant, pointing to the common login endpoint solved this issue.
Currently we are a Service Provider (SP) which is currently using SSO Authentication using OpenAM and we are using Spring security to achieve this.
We have a login interface where user enter user name and password and authentication happens.
Now we have a requirement to allow users from an external identity provider (Azure) to access the SP in addition to the existing Open AM SSO. We are trying to use SAML 2.0 to achieve this.
For this we changed the login interface, to accept the user name and based on the user name, we either provide the password option (for local users ) or redirect to the azure portal (for idp users) to authenticate the user.
As part of this requirement, we added a variable userType into httprequest cookie and try to redirect to the respective authentication provider. But we always get redirected to azure even though the user is a local one.
We have gone through many examples from github to implement this but no luck.
Any pointers on this would really be helpful.
I understand ACS is being phased out in favor of WAAD. As I prepare to delve into Azure for the first time I have a few questions. I already have an Azure account (linked with my MSDN account).
Under ACS, I would create a namespace for my application, configure it with Idps and claims mapping. I would point my application (a RESTful API via WebAPI2) to the ACS federation endpoint for my namespace.
Under WAAD, I've seen where I can add my own application. When I create the new application, is this creating a tenant in my directory? I dont see where I can register my Idp's and configure the Idp's for my relying party. In addition to authenticating via social networks (like facebook/google/etc), I'm going to want to write a custom Idp to hit against my on-premesis user store. Is this possible in WAAD? Finally when creating the application (tenant) in WAAD, its prompting me for a Signon URL. Isn't WAAD supposed to manage the signon, the way it did under ACS? when I defended a website via ACS, the user was redirected to the ACS sign in page, where they could choose from a list of Idp's for login. Why then, under WAAD, do I, the app developer, need to code a sign on page? I'm pretty confused about this.
WAAD does not replace ACS. WAAD is a single identity provider (IdP), whereas ACS can act as a Security Token Service (STS) for multiple IdPs, but is not itself an IdP. Think of ACS more as a broker that has taken some of the work out of integrating with some of the common identity providers out there (Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Live, etc) so that you as the application developer can code to one interface instead of multiple.
My suggestion would be to continue to use ACS as your single point of contact for federated identities and add WAAD as an additional IdP to those applications in your suite that require it. This is a pattern we follow in a number of our applications where we use ACS as the main STS and then expose one or more of the IdPs to an application depending on our needs.
As to your question about a custom IdP pointing to an on premise user store you might consider using Thinktecture Identity Server instead of rolling your own. You can expose Thinktecture Identity Server from ACS just as you would any other IdP in your suite.
I am looking at Windows Azure ACS as an alternative to implementing my own username / password scheme in my app. This will be a publicly available website.
In addition to using SSO providers such as Google or Facebook, can I use Windows Azure ACS to support username/password authentication?
I see that it supports Active Directory as a provider. I am not sure this is the right thing as I have always thought of Active Directory as an "enterprise" provider.
Windows Azure ACS does not support username/password authentication in the form you need. Shahin outlined it in details.
Your options really are:
Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD)
Identity Server (IdSVR)
While classic on-premises Active Directory deployed with a Domain Controller option is indeed quite enterprisy, WAAD is not exact copy of the same in the Cloud. I would actually recommend that you give a shot and try out. Using the WAAD Graph API you can fully automate user management in WAAD.
Your second option is based on IdSVR. This is full-featured Identity Server and Security Token Service. It is developed against the best practices in security and is quite easily extensible! While it does not provide out of the box support for user management (user registration, password reset, etc.) it is ASP.NET MVC 4 application. So you can very easily add this features yourself. There actually is an open enhancement planned for User Management API and UI.
Both WAAD and IdSVR integrate well with ACS, so you can provide seamless support for social identities along with own login.
Another service that is still in Beta/Preview is the SocialSTS project. It is kind of extension to Azure ACS and is designed to help you add more identity providers (such as LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHUB, Amazon Login, etc) to your Access Control Service.
You can authenticate directly with the ACS by using Service Identities, but they are not intended to be used for end-user authentication, as the page explains:
Service identities are not intended to be used as end-user credentials. In ACS, service identities are most commonly used in REST web service scenarios, over the OAuth WRAP protocol, where a client requests a SWT token directly from ACS to present to the web service.
I believe this is the only way to directly get a token from the ACS.