WSO2 Identity Server - REST APIs for permission and roles - rest

I am using WSO2 Identity Server 5.7.0 and WSO2 API Manager 2.6.0. We want to use the user management and role & permissions management of WSO2 itself, but the as per requirement we cannot use WSO2 carbon management GUI for user creattion, role mapping etc.
We need to have a separate GUI but integrate with WSO2 User, Role and Permission management.
For this purpose, WSO2 must have some kind of APIs exposed for third party application integration?
For example, I have checked user creation, user update etc operations are having corresponding SCIM REST APIs which can be used by our applications.
Is there similar APIs for :
1) Creating Service providers
2) Creating permissions at service provider level
3) Creating role mapping at service provider level
4) Creating roles
5) Associating permissions with roles
6) Associating Users with Roles.
Please let me know details of such REST APIs provided by WSO2 if any.

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Keycloak users security

I am using Keycloak 18.0 for Angular 13 + Spring Boot App. The solution utilizes Microservices architecture pattern for this app so basically Keycloak already guards access to other solution resources. I am using only Keycloak REST API.
The problem is Keycloak security itself:
I want to restrict Keycloak client token only to user creation.
Any user has to be able:
1. Fully access and manage ONLY his own profile.
2. Has restricted access to profiles of other users.
3. Any other operation of viewing other users, adjusting
roles etc. should be enabled only if authenticated user
has some kind of permission to do it.
For example:
Anybody can create user (signup).
After user is verified, some role is assigned to that user.
User logs in and acquire its token that has permissions to fully manage only his own resources including user itself and has restricted access to other users and user resources.
I am not sure I want to integrate Keycloak as resource security manager (i am considering that option but for now, only Spring Boot Adapter was implemented to control corresponding resources security) but at least i would like to prevent e.g. reading full list of users using Keycloak client token.
I have basic understanding of Keycloak Resource/Policy/Permission Feature but I am not sure i understand how can i apply it to Keycloak users itself.
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

WSO2 IS and WSO2 APIM - Role change

I followed the steps mentioned in the below WSO2 documentation to use WSO2 IS as an Identity Server with WSO2 APIM.
I use WSO2 IS 5.3.0 and WSO2 APIM 2.1.0.
https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM210/Configuring+WSO2+Identity+Server+as+a+Key+Manager
I am able to access the carbon admin console in both the WSO2 IS and WSO2 APIM (in two ports)
https://localhost:9443/carbon/admin/login.jsp
https://localhost:9444/carbon/admin/login.jsp
When I use WSO2 IS console (9443) to change the user roles, most of the times it is getting reflected immediately, using the same access token. How can it be possible ? An access token is provided by WSO2 with some pre configured scopes. Within the same login session, even before the access token expires, If we change the roles of the logged in user, the roles changes are applied immediately and my access rights are changed ? Is it a valid ?
Assume a user "USER1" got an access token with privileged rights and he/she is able to access privileged APIs. Suddenly if the roles are changed and user "USER1" is assigned a normal user rights, and the user is not able to access the privileged APIs within the same login session. Is this how OAuth works ?
Please help me understand.
If I change the roles in WSO2 APIM (9444), the roles are not getting reflected immediately. Some times, it wait for the access token to expire and the gets a new access token. Sometimes, role changes are getting applied even before the access token expire.
What is the synchronization interval between WSO2 IS and WSO2 APIM, to sync the roles?
I couldn't find these roles in mysql db or ldap. Where are they stored in the backend ?
There are differences in IS as a key manager and the inbuilt key manager of API Manager. The key manager comes with API Manager is not a full fledged Identity solution. Hence its role to scope mapping, access control, etc. are somewhat limited in the point of view of Identity Management aspects.
Identity server acting as a key manager provides the full access control mechanism, hence the change in the role should affect fast as possible, even for issues keys. This is one of the reasons of using IS as a key manager.
Question 1
Ans:
Lets say a user has an admin right when he got the access token. The enterprise may decide the user has no longer needs this right and changes that on their LDAP. It should be reflected on key validation as fast as possible. Otherwise the user has continued access to the service as privileged user until key expires, which is undesirable. So the behavior is valid.
Question 2
Ans: Yes, API Manager is strong on managing APIs. However, it is not a use/role management system. Hence there will be considerable delay in reflecting the role change. So, make sure you use IS to manage the user/roles, etc. when your API Manager is configured with IS.
Where is your configured roles
It should be in WSO2UM_DB configured (UM_ROLE table), if JDBC user store is your primary UserStore.

Enterprise Single Sign On

Am searching for Desktop application manage Enterprise
Single Sign On
(SAML v2, Identity Provider , Service Provider )
Here is how i achieved in my enterprise:
There could be 2 approaches
Use "windows authentication" which can give you actual user trying to access website. Any enterprise application ( assuming it being hosted on Intranet) has integration to Active Directory. This User identity can be authenticated using LDAP server
Use OAuth way and use Third party which provide Identity management. Front End calls their services to generate token. This token can be sent to backend which will authenticate this token against the validator service.
I have used ADFS 2.0 as RSTS for SSO where in we have all the IdentityProviders and the Relying parties are configured. You can use the active end point of the STS (in case you want to authenticate against external sources like web api/ web service/ AD/ Database then prefer writing you own custom STS as the IDP).
Firstly you will get the boot strap token from the IDP and then get the Relying party token from the RSTS. In both the calls you need to communicate against the active end point (a wcf end point which implements WS Trust protocol).
Passive end points/ passive calls are used for thin clients.
You can try using ADFS 3.0 which even supports JOT (JSON) tokens (a very light weight token) along with SAML 2.0.

SSO with keycloak

We are considering to use the keycloak as our SSO framework.
According to the keycloak documentation for multi-tenancy support the application server should hold all the keycloak.json authentication files, the way to acquire those files is from the keycloak admin, is there a way to get them dynamically via API ? or at least to get the realm public key ? we would like to avoid to manually add this file for each realm to the application server (to avoid downtime, etc).
Another multi-tenancy related question - according to the documentation the same clients should be created for each realm, so if I have 100 realms and 10 clients, I should define the same 10 clients 100 times ? is there an alternative ?
One of our flows is backend micro-service that should be authenticated against an application (defined as keycloak client), we would like to avoid keeping user/psw on the server for security reasons, is there a way that an admin can acquire a token and place it manually on the server file system for that micro service ? is there a option to generate this token in the keycloak UI ?
Thanks in advance.
All Keycloak functionality is available via the admin REST API, so you can automate this. The realm's public key is available via http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/{realm}/
A realm for each tenant will give a tenant-specific login page. Therefore this is the way to go - 10 clients registered 100 times. See more in the chapter Client Registration of the Keycloak documentation. If you don't need specific themes, you can opt to put everything in one realm, but you will lose a lot of flexibility on that path.
If your backend micro service should appear like one (technical) user, you can issue an offline token that doesn't expire. This is the online documentation for offline tokens. Currently there is no admin functionality to retrieve an offline token for a user by an admin. You'll need to build this yourself. An admin can later revoke offline tokens using the given admin API.

IBM Tivoli access manager vs Tivoli Federated identity manager

Can someone please explain the major differences between IBM Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Federated Identity Manager?
Does TAM support SAML?
Updated Answer: SAML is now supported with ISAM v9.
The names and versions of the products have been updated/changed. Basically, TFIM and TAM are now old names and products. All of the functionality and code of TFIM has been rolled into to ISAM v9. ISAM v9 now has Web, AAC, and Federation components. (ISAM v8 did not have the Federation componentm ISAM 8 only had Web and Mobile)
ISAM 9 Web - reverse proxy that handles authentication/authorization to back-end web servers
ISAM 9 AAC (Advanced Access Control) - more advanced authorization functions tailored toward mobile devices like device fingerprinting, geolocation awareness, and IP reputation
ISAM 9 Federation - all the old TFIM code with updates
old Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) -> new IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM)
old Tivoli Federated Identity Manager -> new ISAM v9 Federation
I will elaborate a bit more since nzpcmad 's answer fails to address TFIM at all.
IBM Tivoli Access Manager ( now IBM Security Access Manager) handles the authentication and authorization part of your IAM infastructure.
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager allows for federated and web Single Sign On. It can be used with ISAM, for example in a scenario that ISAM delegates the authentication part to TFIM for certain resources/cases.
ISAM does not speak SAML by itself, but it can leverage TFIM that does.
Other than that, you would have to ask something more specific in order to get concrete answers.
In general, an Identity Manager provisions users into an identity repository e.g. AD / LDAP. It also provides password self-service etc. The provisioning includes user attributes and roles.
An Access Manager provides authentication (using the identity repository) and authorization based on the users attributes, roles and credentials provisioned by the Identity Manager.