I am currently evaluating keycloak as central Identity Manager for multiple a backend with multiple REST services (Resteasy/Wildfly).
After a lot of trial and error and reading the docu, I have succeeded in succesfully making an openid connect login into my custom keycloakrealm (analogue to this post http://blog.keycloak.org/2015/10/getting-started-with-keycloak-securing.html)
I can see the acces token + id_token coming in the response and are able to make requests to the REST services by passing these tokes.
However I can only authenticate using the credentials of the users defined in keycloak itself. However, in our reallife case, the users reside in SAP and are unknown to keycloak.
We do, however have a javalibrary for authenticating these users over the SAPJCO connector.
Can anyone please tell me how to configure keycloak to use a "custom authentication" module for the actual authentication?
Is implementing a custom authenticator SPI (https://keycloak.gitbooks.io/server-developer-guide/content/v/2.1/topics/auth-spi.html) the way to go? If not, what wuold be a possible solution???
Hope you guys can help!
Reagrds,
Kim Zeevaarders
The Netherlands
If you can access the SAP users details via the SAPJCO connector then you could write a custom Federation Provider. The provided example is rudimentary but it give the basic idea and maven dependencies.
In a nutshell you will need to extend org.keycloak.models.UserFederationProvider and provide methods for obtaining user details, validation of credentials and searching by attributes. In your case you would use your SAPJCO connector to fulfil each of these functions against your existing user base.
Update 30 May 2018
The User Federation SPI was replaced with a new User Storage SPI in release 2.5. Migration Notes are available here
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use case
in icCube
one server instance
icCube users only need to access the reporting
icCube is used to for a standard reporting solution for an industry vertical and can be used by multiple clients, each having their own (copy of the) structures that work with their own data
a client can grant one or more users access to their own dashboards in icCube
authorization requirement
it should be possible to link authorization to the client's identity
management system (such as AD)
for others, it should be possible to assign a local admin at the client that can give access to their own environment to whom they wih
for the rest, it should be possible for a centralized admin to maintain access
a perfect job for ...
keycloak
keycloak needs for each of the requirements a seperate realm with client (see picture)
The icCube documentation only makes mention of one Realm & client.
the question
Is it possible to use multiple keycloak realms & clients with one instance of icCube?
See also icCube documentation on keycloak integration
Right now this is not possible.
The keycloak.json file is used to connect to a Keycloak server that is going to authenticate the HTTP request. So you would need somehow a way to determine which keycloak.json file to use based on the HTTP request before using it meaning having different URL and/or URLs with a specific parameter.
Possibly the multi-tenant support could be extended to be able to configure an authentication logic per tenant with the same constraint about the URL value.
Hope that helps.
I wanted to capture user attributes coming from SAP IDP(Identity & Authentication tenant service like department,salutation ,company etc ,via UserAccessor SDK api,but although those attributes are set and has value in IDP user and all the integration with IDP and sub account is in place post authentication ,user attributes object is empty ,i am only able to retrieve specific attributes like first names ,last name,email address ,user groups etc via JWT and UserAccessor api ,but no luck with other attributes ,in IDP i have mentioned these attributes as well under assertion attributes in SAP Identity authentication tenant .
Please guide and help in this matter .
Thanks Siddharth
Update: As we have now identified the problem, I will update my answer to reflect that. The original answer below is outdated:
Okay so the problem is that you haven't mapped any additional user attributes from your Identity Provider (IdP) to your JWT. As far as I'm aware there are three things you will need to do:
You need to create attributes in your xs-security.json (the file you used to configure your XSUAA service instance). This documentation should explain how to do that.
You need to configure which attributes are exposed by your IdP (in your case the SAP Identity & Authentication service. This documentation looks like a good place to start looking).
You need to map the attributes exposed by your IdP to the attributes defined in your xs-security.json. You will probably need to reconfigure (i.e. delete, recreate and rebind) your XSUAA service instance with the updated config, before you can do this step. Then, navigate to your application in the Cloud Platform Cockpit, from the left toolbar click "Security > Roles" and create your mapping.
Let me know if this works for you!
Original Answer:
As far as I'm aware the default IdP does not support SAML. Without SAML, I'm not sure whether you can propagate any attributes from your IdP into the JWT.
Please also check out this discussion for more information.
I'm just starting a new project. The result will be an API server and a progressive web app. The API server is implemented with TypeScript and the NestJS framework, the client with Angular 6.
I've been flirting with keycloak for some time. Still, I'm not quite sure it's right for me yet. But I don't want to worry about things like token renewal anymore and find it sexy that Keycloak tells me how to create user roles.
What bothers me, is the following - integration. For my use case it is necessary that the login and all features like password reset and so on are part of my application. That means I want to create forms myself in order to be able to do this perfectly in my own design and not have a second translation process, etc. Keycloak themes are not an option. So is it possible to hide keycloak in such a way, or is it so complex that I shouldn't use Keyloak in the first place? Afaik there is already an issue with password resets - I can't request it from the user side but have to make an REST call to the admin endpoint - which is okay but not ideal since it requires me to do more server side logic ( and that is not why I want to use Keycloak).
In addition, Keycloak is too much about the GUI - which makes it difficult for me, especially during development. Because I also want to provide my team with a local instance of keycloak during development. But what is the concept to import the initial data into realms, apps and also users into Keycloak? I found some JSON imports - but so far only for realms and apps. Is there also a function to import a whole dumb?
So that my team builds on a pre-built setup and has a user for each role. A reproducible setup with Vagrant or Docker which contains the import of initial data - that would be the goal.
So in short my questions:
Is it still worth the effort using Keycloak if I want to use everything via the API or should I simply use Passport and JWT?
Can I have a reproducible setup during my development that includes realms, apps, users, user roles, etc?
So, the question asked few months ago, but I also faces with that question, and I want to answer on it.
I think that you don't need Keycloak, it is fairly enough for you to use OAuth2 and JWT.
Let's justify my answer:
You have just one client - Angular application. Keycloak useful, when you have many clients (web-js, mobile platforms) and you want to create and manage them dynamically. But, I think that, in your case, you create your client once without modification in the future.
Also, Keycloak very useful, when you have a lot of integration with third part systems (Google, Fb, Twitter and etc) because Keycloak has them out-of-box. Or you need to integrate with some SAML or LDAP provider.
You may use Keycloak, if you need some Identity and User management platform, and when you have complicated user access flow.
In the end, you could consider Keycloak, if you need SSO (Single Sign On) feature. Once logged-in to Keycloak, users don't have to login again to access a different application. But, by your description, you have just one application.
Keycloak offers features such as Single-Sign-On (SSO), Identity Brokering and Social Login, User Federation, Client Adapters, an Admin Console, and an Account Management Console.
It's an out of box solution for rapid security layer development of application.You could have single common security layer for multiple application .
You can implement you security mechanism without using keycloak.
Looking for best practice instructions on how to integrate a Fiware/Wirecloud with Moodle. It would seem that Fiware/IdM should be providing the user data and Moodle connects via one of its plugins. Moodle offers a number of different authentication options (actually too many, difficult to decide best path). Ideally, once logged in, Moodle pluggins should also be able to access other FIWARE backend services.
Should be possible in principle but I notice that the Fiware academy http://edu.fiware.org/ does not have SSO with the FIWARE lab :-)
WireCloud supports using the OAuth2 token provided by the IdM to access third-party services, so the real problem is how to integrate Moodle with the IdM (as commented by #Meier).
There are some moodle plugins like auth_googleoauth2 that supposedly offer support for adding your own OAuth2 providers. Take into account that probably you will need to make more modifications to this kind of plugins as usually the OAuth provider are only used for the sign in process, but this doesn't mean that you will be able to use the OAuth2 token as valid credentials for making request to the web service API.
We are using PingFederate to enable SSO. It's being mapped with the LDAP directory server and our site is able to use SSO. Now we are integrating a helpdesk software application which is being hosted somewhere within our own site. We want the help desk user to be able to login using our site credentials. For that I need to add the help desk as a partner (SP) in PingFederate acting as an IdP.
How can I achieve this? A brief explanation would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
You may want to check out the Getting Started - Part 3 recording from our website. It demonstrates how the setup a connection to a typical service provider.
https://www.pingidentity.com/support/training-center/index.cfm/103-creating-a-connection?id=1011570451001
In a nutshell, you would need communicate with your partner about federation and share some information like:
Federation Standard/Protocol,
Base URL, Entity ID, Endpoints,
Binding,
SSO profile,
Attributes,
and so on.
All of the above depends on what federation server your partner is using. Once you have all the information you can quickly setup the connection to your partner within PingFederate.
I hope this helps. I've also sent you a PM.
There's lots of good information in our documentation on managing SP connections: https://support.pingidentity.com/s/document-item?bundleId=pingfederate-92&topicId=adminGuide%2FmanagingSpConnections.html
How the connection is made largely depends on how you authenticate users, what attributes you're sending, and what the SAML capabilities/details are of your help desk software. If no SAML features are available, you may have to use one of our Integrations to either front end it (with a web server plugin, like Apache or IIS) or modify the app (using one of our language kits or agentless integration approach).
You may also want to consider sitting in one of our training sessions on PingFederate basics: https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/training.html
Should all else fail, our support centre is there to help if you have a valid contract.