Java EE Container Based Security - jsf

I am attempting to implement JDBC Realm Authentication with Wildfly.
I have used this article as reference:
http://blog.eisele.net/2015/01/jdbc-realm-wildfly820-primefaces51.html
As well as the accompanying source code on GitHub at https://github.com/myfear/SimpleJDBCRealmWildFly/
I am presented with the login form if I try to access one of the protected areas of the application but after filling in my username and password it never seems to successfully authenticate(loginError.xhtml).
The only difference between my application and the above example is that my form specifies
action="j_security_check"
whereas the GitHib example uses
onsubmit="document.loginForm.action = 'j_security_check';"
In my web.xml I specify
<security-role>
<role-name>ADMIN</role-name>
</security-role>
Which matches what I specified for my user in my role table..What am I still missing?

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Keycloak, Tomcat 9, and #RolesAllowed?

I am trying to configure my Tomcat 9-based web application to leverage Keycloak for its security provider. I've done this in the past on Wildfly with no problem using the Wildfly adapter. I'm running into issues doing this in Tomcat 9, though. Here's what I've done...
I've added the Keycloak Tomcat adapter to my project using maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.keycloak</groupId>
<artifactId>keycloak-tomcat8-adapter</artifactId>
<version>6.0.1</version>
</dependency>
In my context.xml file I've defined the Keycloak authenticator valve:
<Context path="/myapp">
<Valve
className="org.keycloak.adapters.tomcat.KeycloakAuthenticatorValve" />
</Context>
In my web.xml file I've added a login-config and security-role:
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name>KEYCLOAK</realm-name>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<role-name>*</role-name>
</security-role>
I've also added my keycloak.json file to my /WEB-INF directory within the WAR file. Now I'm trying to test it by adding a #RolesAllowed annotation to a test Servlet I've created:
#WebServlet(urlPatterns = { "/TestServlet" })
#RolesAllowed({ "roleA", "roleB", "roleXXX" })
public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet {
...
}
I am not authenticated at this point, so I would expect that hitting /TestServlet would cause me to receive a 403 or 401. However, Tomcat lets me in just fine. No errors or anything. As a sanity check, I changed the #RolesAllowed annotation to #DenyAll, expecting that I would be prevented from hitting the servlet in my browser. Even after this change I'm still able to get through.
Does anyone have any idea why this is not working as expected? Is #RolesAllowed not supported for Servlets? I was under the impression that it was. If not, is there something different I should be doing to integrate Keycloak and Tomcat 9?

Basic Auth not working (headers not attached) with AngularJS Client and Java Jersey Backend

I have a Java Backend (with Jersey) and an Angular Client (on a different Host), which accesses the api provides by Jersey.
Without authentication everything works great (I have a CORS filter included).
Now when I add basic auth to web.xml on Java Backend, the problems start.
Sample:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Sample</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/manager-api/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>manager</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
<!--<user-data-constraint>
<transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint> -->
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
</login-config>
I tried to set the Basis Authentication header on every AngularJS $http call. But the problem is, that this header isnt attached to the OPTIONS call, which is made first.
HTTP Sample:
App.config(['$httpProvider', function($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + authdata;
}]);
Do you have any idea how I can get arround this? Is there a way to add the header to the options call? Or is it possible to allow OPTIONS calls without allowing GET and POST calls?
Any help is highly appreciated.
Greets
Marc
I don't see authdata defined anywhere there. Therefore, you're sending the header: Authorization: Basic unless you haven't included all of the relevant code.

how to get the url of the initially requested page?

I use the following web.xml setting to direct unlogged-in user to /faces/loginPage.xhtml.
In /faces/loginPage.xhtml I will authenticate the user and redirect the user to the home page.
Now I want to redirect the user to the page she initially requested, instead of the home page. How do I do that? Specifically, how to get the url of the initially requested page?
<security-constraint>
<display-name>MyConstraint</display-name>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>wrcoll</web-resource-name>
<description />
<url-pattern>/faces/secured/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description />
<role-name>myUser</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name>my_ldap_domain</realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/faces/loginPage.xhtml</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/error.xhtml</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
You seem to be performing the login through a JSF managed bean instead of through j_security_check. Because if you were using the latter, this is already automatically taken into account.
The FORM based authentication login page is been displayed by a RequestDispatcher#forward() the usual Servlet API way. So the request URI of the initially requested page is available as a request attribute with the name as specified by RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_REQUEST_URI, which has a value of "javax.servlet.forward.request_uri".
So, in EL context it's available as
#{requestScope['javax.servlet.forward.request_uri']}
And in JSF context it's available as
String originalURL = (String) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestMap().get("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
This needs to be collected on the initial request, not on the form submit. Easiest would be to grab it in the constructor of a #ViewScoped managed bean which is attached to the page. An alternative with a #RequestScoped bean is to enclose a plain HTML <input type="hidden"> in with that value in the login form and set it as #ManagedProperty.

Adding user role constraint redirects Browser to jsf.js script?

My JSF form login was working with Constraint 1 however when I added Constraint 2 to my web.xml doing a submit on the form now takes me to a jsf javascript page. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I'm hoping this is a quick configuration mistake.
I would like only administrators to be able to access the /admin/* pages and only registered users to access the entire site included admin files. BTW after I see the java script page I can still navigate to the intended page in the browser, I just don't want the user to see the intermediate js page or need to know the target page URL.
Constraint 1
<security-constraint>
<display-name>Admin</display-name>
<web-resource-collection>
<url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>ADMIN</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
Constraint 2
<security-constraint>
<display-name>Users</display-name>
<web-resource-collection>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>USER</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
Here is the undesired url I am being redirected to:
javax.faces.resource/jsf.js.xhtml?ln=javax.faces&stage=Development
Here is the start of the jsf.js.xhtml... which is displayed on Firefox
/**
#project JSF JavaScript Library
#version 2.0
#description This is the standard implementation of the JSF JavaScript Library.
*/
/**
* Register with OpenAjax
*/
if (typeof OpenAjax !== "undefined" &&
typeof OpenAjax.hub.registerLibrary !== "undefined") {
OpenAjax.hub.registerLibrary("jsf", "www.sun.com", "2.0", null);
}
// Detect if this is already loaded, and if loaded, if it's a higher version
if (!((jsf && jsf.specversion && jsf.specversion >= 20000 ) &&
(jsf.implversion && jsf.implversion >= 3))) {
...
On Internet Explorer 8.0.7 I get this popup
Notes
I'm using Firefox 10.0.4, IE 8.03, Glassfish 3.1 w JSF2.0 lib, j_security_check, and my login realm setup is similar to this
Try to add
<intercept-url pattern="/javax.faces.resource/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_ANONYMOUS')"/>
to your security.xml.
See comments below accepted answer JSF with Spring security - Redirect to specified page after login

How to use htpasswd protection in Tomcat?

I have already created a user database file using Apache's htpasswd command. This file is now used by several other application like apache and subversion.
Users in are created like this:
htpasswd /path/to/users.htpasswd peter
This user file is global, not per directory.
How I can make Tomcat 6 use this same file as a security realm?
Most similar to the htpasswd may be the MemoryRealm.
I had problems myself to find a simple example how to use it, so I'll post an easy example code here:
Set up a role, username and password in tomcat-users.xml
Your web.xml should contain something like:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>
My Protected WebSite
</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern> /* </url-pattern>
<http-method> GET </http-method>
<http-method> POST </http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<!-- the same like in your tomcat-users.conf file -->
<role-name> test </role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method> BASIC </auth-method>
<realm-name> Basic Authentication </realm-name>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<description> Test role </description>
<role-name> test </role-name>
</security-role>
Add this to your server.xml file:
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm"></Realm>
To secure access to your Tomcat webapp, you can implement your simple security constraint (e.g. in /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/*/WEB-INF/web.xml) as below (just add it before </web-app> ending):
<!-- This security constraint protects your webapp interface. -->
<login-config>
<!-- Define the Login Configuration -->
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name>Webapp</realm-name>
</login-config>
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Admin</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>*</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
<!-- Specifying a Secure Connection -->
<user-data-constraint>
<!-- transport-guarantee can be CONFIDENTIAL (forced SSL), INTEGRAL, or NONE -->
<transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<!-- Authorization, see: tomcat-users.xml -->
<security-role>
<role-name>*</role-name>
</security-role>
The login-config element contains the auth-method element, which specifies the authentication method that we use, which is BASIC. The security-constraint element contains 3 elements: web-resource-collection, auth-constraint, and user-data-constraint. The web-resource-collection specifies the parts of our application that require authentication. The /* indicates that the whole application requires authentication. The auth-constraint specifies the role that a user needs to have in order to access the protected resources. The user-data-constraint's transport-guarantee can be NONE, CONFIDENTIAL or INTEGRAL. We set it to NONE, which means that redirecting to SSL is not required when you try to hit the protected resource.
Also make sure that you've line:
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm" />
inside your conf/server.xml (Engine section).
If you have not changed any configuration files, please examine the file conf/tomcat-users.xml in your installation (locate tomcat-users.xml). That file must contain the credentials to let you use Tomcat webapp.
For example, to add the manager-gui role to a user named tomcat with a password of s3cret, add the following to the config file listed above:
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui"/>
Then you can access your webapps manager from /manager/html (e.g. reloading after config changes).
Read more: Manager App HOW-TO.
Then restart your Tomcat and when accessing your webapp, it should ask you for the right credentials.
See also:
HTTP Basic Authentication in Java at Oracle site
Specifying an Authentication Mechanism in Java at Oracle site
Realm Configuration HOW-TO at Apache Tomcat site
Setting up role based security in tomcat
How do I use Basic authentication with Tomcat?
There are two options:
Use Apache as a front end to the tomcat (using either mod_jk or mod_proxy_ajp) and the Apache do the authentication. You can find details on how to do so here
If you want the tomcat to do the authentication, then you need ot use something else than the htpasswd file. There are 4 ways to save the users' credentials - using database, JNDI/LDAP, an XML file or a JAAS provider. You can read about all the options in the Realm Configuration HOW-TO.

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