I created a loopback api ('http://localhost:8100/api/insertsubmitorder/insertOrders') . this api is not Secure . Can we Secure and Authenticate this API using OAuth2 or Other . I go through the looback docs for Authentication http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Authentication-authorization-and-permissions.html#preparing-access-control-models .
but i can not get the soluition. Please tell me how can i add Security my loopback APIs.
If you have a user-database with already existing users, I'd suggest writing a custom login with LoopBacks built in user-functionality. Otherwise, just create a user and do a login-post to the /login-endpoint. This will return an accesstoken (and also the user object if you wish to include it) which you can use against the endpoints for validation. The validation is setup through the ACL in the models json-objects.
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Good Day,
Currently I have a single tenent with a React UI and .NET Core Apis secured by Azure Active Directory without any problems.
We have recently moved to a new Azure Tenent, new Active Directory etc. I have create two new App Registrations, one single App Service for UI and one for API. I have linked the App Service to AAD (UI = UI App Registration, API = API App Registration).
The problem is the API is getting a 401 error and I think see that in the original tenent the Bearer token is in a JWT format but in the new instance it's not, I believe it my be a graph api access key.
New Tenent:
Authorization: Bearer PAQABAAAAAAD--DLA3VO7QrddgJg7WevrQvEQVbZEMD8su-tIp9k2bTFUTort7SZgeDI52P6KRYefHgtmj4YrecgUKZJ2wylGuhvIzIz642n7Sg0VMU1RwKtrzWlaMqK62CaSoJcstxiEf6 *****
Orginal Tenent:
Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6Im5PbzNaRHJPRFhFSzFqS1doWHNsSFJfS1hFZyIsImtpZCI6Im5PbzNaRHJPRFhFSzFqS1doWHNsSFJfS1hFZyJ9.eyJhdWQiOiI3OThkN2ZkOC0zODk2LTQxOGMtOTQ0Ny0wNGFlNTQ2OGFkNDIiLCJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL3N0cy53aW5kb3dzLm5ldC83ZDE3NTU3Ni03Y2Y3LTQyMDctOTA5My0wNmNiNmQyZDIwNjAvIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE2NDUyNzExLCJuYmYiOjE2MTY0NTI3MTEsImV4cCI6MTYxNjQ1NjYxMSwiYWNyIjoiMSIsImFpbyI6IkFTUUEyLzhUQUFBQU9mejhPZHp *****
Please someone kindly enought to provide some guidance / input where I am going wrong.
Regards
Paul.
When using Azure AD to obtain an access token, an additional resource parameter is required. Otherwise, the access token is not a JWT.
For example, if your web API's application ID URI is https://contoso.com/api and the scope name is Employees.Read.All, then with oidc-client the client configuration should be :
scope: 'openid profile email Employees.Read.All',
extraQueryParams: {
resource: 'https://contoso.com/api'
}
In App Service auth configuration, you can use additionalLoginParams
"additionalLoginParams": ["response_type=code", "resource=https://contoso.com/api"]
If you did not use a custom application ID URI, it may look like
api://868662dd-3e28-4c7f-b7d5-7ec02ac9c601
Quickstart: Configure an application to expose a web API
Firstly, the scope is incorrect.
You should Expose an API in your API App Registration and then add it as a permission in your UI App Registration. You can refer to this document.
And when you try to call the 'https://login.windows.net/{tenant}/oauth2/authorize endpoint, you need to specify the scope to include api://{app id of the API App Registration}. For example: api://{app id of the API App Registration} openid profile email. Then the access token would be for calling your API.
At last, for CORS issue, please configure the CORS as * in your web app to see if it helps.
Try to follow this step: Configure App Service to return a usable access token
In my experience, this problem occurs, when you try to authorize against version 1 of the endpoint.
Instead of calling
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/authorize
call
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/v2.0/authorize
You might be required to set something like "metadata URL" in you authorization library to:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
Make sure your builder follows this order...lifted from our API program.cs
These must be in order of
UseRouting -> UseAuthentication -> UseAuthorisation -> MapControllers
> app.UseRouting()
> app.UseAuthentication()
> app.UseAuthorization()
> app.MapControllers()
If app.UseAuthentication and app.UseAuthorization are not in this order in statement position you Will get 401 Unauthorised as at 01/2023 .Net 6 Core.
I'm trying to understand how an saml authentication flow could work in a mobile environment where the client (AngularJS based), api server (Node & passport based), and idp exist on different domains.
From what I've gathered the general practice is to have the server return a 401 to the client if there's no authentication present (i.e. the client didn't include a bearer token in the request). The client understands that a 401 response indicates to open up the login endpoint on the server. When the login endpoint is opened it makes a passport call to the auth provider (which redirects the user to the auth provider's site) and supplies a callback URL. When the user authenticates, the auth provider redirects to the provided callback URL, which allows the server to retrieve information from the auth provider's response and construct a token of some sort (e.g. JWT) that can be used by the client (i.e. included in the headers) when making REST calls to identify itself.
My question is: How does the client get the token from the server? Because we're in a redirect-based authentication flow, I can't just return token from the callback function; that would just display the token in the browser without handing it off of to the client. Does the server just issue a 302 redirect pointing back to the client domain and include the authentication token in a header? Maybe I should not redirect from the client to the server in the first place and instead window.open() and use window.opener.postMessage or is that too old fashioned/mobile-unfriendly?
This question talks about authentication against a SAML IDP, but I'm interested in getting more details specifically about that last bullet point and how it would work with an AngularJS-based client.
Many examples I've seen online are either a single domain using OAuth/SAML (passport-saml-example), which avoids the issue of having the client exist on a separate domain, or use two domains with basic authentication, which avoids the issue of redirecting to some third party for authentication, but I'm having trouble finding good examples that uses all the bits and pieces I'm trying to work with.
This blog post seems very close to what I'm trying to accomplish (see googleSignInCallback) and uses a 302 redirect like I imagined but that solution relies on explicitly knowing the client URL to redirect to, which seems like it could be problematic if I wanted to support multiple client types (i.e. Native applications) in the future.
Eventually I was able to work together a solution by having my application open a browser window (Cordova's InAppBrowser) to a SAML-enabled application, have that application complete the normal SAML flow, and then that SAML-enabled application generated a JWT. My mobile application was then able to extract the JWT string from the browser window with the InAppBrowser's executeScript functionality. Then I could pass that JWT string along to my API server, which was able to validate the JWT is properly signed and trusted.
After I implemented my solution I saw that there was similar functionality available on github:
https://github.com/feedhenry-templates/saml-service
https://github.com/feedhenry-templates/saml-cloud-app
https://github.com/feedhenry-templates/saml-cordova-app
Hopefully this helps anyone else trying to deal with this issue!
I have seen lot of examples where, there is a custom Login page with Angular JS, and then we make a rest POST call with the username/pwd, and then Spring authenticates based on whatever Auth Service we provide. Then we receive a success, grab the user object from Spring Security and then create a Session cookie in Angular.
https://github.com/witoldsz/angular-http-auth/blob/master/src/http-auth-interceptor.js
I also have seen, integrating Siteminder with Spring Security where we install a policy agent on the web server, and then grab request headers with Spring Security, and then pull the roles and build a user profile object.
I'm looking for a solution where I can combine both the above. This is the scenario :
When the user requests for index.html (Angular), the policy agent on the web server intercepts, authenticates with a Siteminder login page and then passes the headers to the app server. The Spring Security on app server will read the headers and pull the roles from our app database and then build a userprofile object. Now here, I want to continue the flow and display angular page, but Im trying to figure out, how do I send the user profile object to angular, because angular is not making a POST call at this point. Also, how do I get the http-auth-interceptor in play, because I need to keep checking if the user is still authenticated on the change of every view/state in Angular.
Help appreciated ! Thanks !
You may implement a tiny JSON REST service "/your-app/profile" which is protected by SiteMinder, reads and evaluates the headers and returns the result as a JSON object.
Your Angular App (e.g. /your-app/index.html) should better also be protected by SiteMinder so you receive an immediate redirect to the SSO Login when accessing it without session. In addition, it must read the JSON REST resource "/your-app/profile" when loaded. It must also expect that SMSESSION is missing when reading "/your-app/profile" and react accordingly - perform a reload of the protected index.html page to trigger a SM SSO re-login (if "/your-app/index.html" is protected, otherwise you must trigger login by a redirect to some protected resource).
If you want to constantly check to see if SiteMinder session is still present, you may either access the "/your-app/profile" or check for the presence of the SMSESSION cookie (only in case it is not set as HTTP-only).
One SECURITY NOTE: If you rely on the seamless SSO which is provided via SMSESSION cookie, be aware of the possible CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks!
Apparently both roles and the username will be available in spring if the integration is done as this describes
Integrating Spring Security with SiteMinder
I'm a Salesforce system administrator and I would like to use the Web Services API on behalf of (ie: impersonate) a Salesforce user that is part of my company.
More precisely, I'm looking for a feature similar to what Google Docs already provides: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/#using_google_apps_administrative_access_to_impersonate_other_domain_users
Can this be done ?
Thanks !
The only way to do this is to authenticate with the API using the other user's credentials. This is a security feature that cannot be avoided.
This is should be possible if you have login access for that user and a tool to inspect a browser cookies.
When you're logged in as the test user open a cookie browser and grab the value in the "sid" cookie. This is a session id for that user and can be set in the headers of an api request instead of doing a login call.
I've haven't tried this. It's possible that this session id may only be valid for the browser and not the API. In that case you should probably just create a test user with the same profile and your email. If all else fails just ask the user to temporarily change their password and share it with you.
I am currently working on a small project using RESTlet on Google App Engine/Java.
I was searching.. searching.. and couldn't find the exact or understandable solutions for my doubts.
My question is that How am I suppose to implement my own SignIn & SignUp module without using google's UserService or Spring Security??
Is there any actual sample code available??
I mean SignUp part is just a simple JDO insert & select module. let's just say I've done it.
How am I supposed to handle each user's request session and authentication??
I am thinking about using HTTPS on every request.
Any suggestions or help would be really appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
In Restlet, you have security support on both client and server sides. On client side, you can specify security hints using the ChallengeResponse entity. This feature is open and you can specify the authentication type you want. In the following code, I use an http basic authentication based on username / password:
ClientResource cr = new ClientResource(uri);
ChallengeScheme scheme = ChallengeScheme.HTTP_BASIC;
ChallengeResponse authentication = new ChallengeResponse(
scheme, "username", "password");
cr.setChallengeResponse(authentication);
Restlet will automatically build necessary headers in the corresponding request. You can note that Restlet supports a wide range of authentication types through its extensions. I know that some work is done at the moment to support OAuth v2 (see http://wiki.restlet.org/developers/172-restlet/257-restlet/310-restlet.html).
On the server side, you need to secure accesses at routing level using the ChallengeAuthenticator entity, as described below. This can be done within your Restlet application:
public Restlet createInboundRoot() {
Router router = new Router(getContext());
ChallengeAuthenticator guard = new ChallengeAuthenticator(getContext(),
ChallengeScheme.HTTP_BASIC, "realm");
guard.setVerifier(verifier);
guard.setEnroler(enroler);
guard.setNext(router);
return guard;
}
Like for client side, this support is generic and is based on two interfaces that need to be specified on the guard:
The verifier one to check if authentication is successful
The enroler one to fill roles for the authenticated user
You can notice that same security technologies need to be use on both sides...
If you want to manage authentication session for user, you need to implement it by yourself using cookies.
When authentication successes on server side, you can return a cookie containing a security token that allows you checking the user from your database (for example). Some code like below can implement that:
CookieSetting cookie = new CookieSetting(0,
SECURITY_COOKIE_NAME, securityToken);
Series<CookieSetting> cookieSettings = response.getCookieSettings();
cookieSettings.clear();
cookieSettings.add(cookie);
You can extend for example the SecretVerifier class of Restlet to add a test on security data received and add this code when receiving the security cookie.
On client side, you need to add hints for authentication the first time and then re send the security cookie following times, as described below:
ClientResource clientResource = (...)
(...)
Cookie securityCookie = new Cookie(0,
SECURITY_COOKIE_NAME, securityToken);
clientResource.getRequest().getCookies().clear();
clientResource.getRequest().getCookies().add(securityCookie);
Hope it will help you!
Thierry
If you are interested in re-using social accounts, you need to integrate with each one like facebook oauth
And/Or use the app engine authentication via OpenID
Both ways define an API to authenticate a client, you can use the UserService or manage your own state via cookies.