Secure Embedded with PicketBox

Steps of implement a JAAS authentication

PicketBox is a Java Security Framework that build on top of JAAS. PicketBox is configured via a schema formatted Security Configuration File(security-config_5_0.xsd) and provides various LoginModule Implementations (UsersRolesLoginModule, LdapExtLoginModule, DatabaseServerLoginModule, etc). The following are 5 key steps to execute a authentication:

//1. establish the JAAS Configuration with picketbox authentication xml file
SecurityFactory.prepare();

//2. load picketbox authentication xml file
PicketBoxConfiguration config = new PicketBoxConfiguration();
config.load(SampleMain.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("picketbox/authentication.conf"));

//3. get AuthenticationManager
AuthenticationManager authManager = SecurityFactory.getAuthenticationManager(securityDomain);

//4. execute authentication
authManager.isValid(userPrincipal, credString, subject);

//5. release resource
SecurityFactory.release();

Teiid Embedded exposes 2 methods for security authentication:

  • EmbeddedConfiguration.setSecurityHelper() - associated with a org.teiid.security.SecurityHelper in the engine jar. If no SecurityHelper is set, then no authentication will be performed.

  • EmbeddedConfiguration.setSecurityDomain() - associated with a application-policy’s name in Security Configuration file. If no SecurityDomain is set, then a default teiid-security will be used.

EmbeddedSecurityHelper is a sample implementation of SecurityHelper, authentication.conf is a sample Security Configuration file.

How to develop a SecurityHelper

Add ’teiid-engine-VERSION.jar’to classpath is necessary. If you are using the maven to pull artifacts, the engine dependency can added as below,

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.teiid</groupId>
    <artifactId>teiid-engine</artifactId>
</dependency>

The key to develop a SecurityHelper is implement the authenticate() method. PicketBox’s 5 key steps to execute an authentication which depicted in Steps of implement a JAAS authentication is shown in the example below:

@Override
public SecurityContext authenticate(String securityDomain, String baseUserName, Credentials credentials, String applicationName) throws LoginException {

    SecurityFactory.prepare();
    try {
        PicketBoxConfiguration config = new PicketBoxConfiguration();
        config.load(this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("picketbox/authentication.conf"));

        AuthenticationManager authManager = SecurityFactory.getAuthenticationManager(securityDomain);
        if (authManager != null){
            final Principal userPrincipal = new SimplePrincipal(baseUserName);
            final Subject subject = new Subject();
            final String credString = credentials==null?null:new String(credentials.getCredentialsAsCharArray());
            final String domain = securityDomain;
            boolean isValid = authManager.isValid(userPrincipal, credString, subject);
            if (isValid) {
                SecurityContext securityContext = AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction<SecurityContext>(){
                    @Override
                    public SecurityContext run() {
                        SecurityContext sc;
                        try {
                            sc = SecurityContextFactory.createSecurityContext(userPrincipal, credString, subject, domain);
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                            throw new RuntimeException(e);
                        }
                        return sc;
                    }});
                return securityContext;
            }
        }
    } finally {
        SecurityFactory.release();
    }
    throw new LoginException("The username " +  baseUserName + " and/or password could not be authenticated by security domain " + securityDomain + ".");
}

You can just return null from negotiateGssLogin unless you want to all GSS authentications from JDBC/ODBC.

Embedded Security with UsersRolesLoginModule

Add the following content to PicketBox Security Configuration file:

<application-policy name = "teiid-security">
    <authentication>
        <login-module code = "org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule" flag = "required"></login-module>
    </authentication>
</application-policy>

To prepare users/roles by add users.properties and roles.properties to class path. A sample of users.properties

testUser=password

A sample of roles.properties

testUser=user

To start Embedded Server with UsersRolesLoginModule based security authentication via:

EmbeddedServer server =
...
EmbeddedConfiguration config = new EmbeddedConfiguration();
config.setSecurityDomain("teiid-security-file");
config.setSecurityHelper(new EmbeddedSecurityHelper());
server.start(config);

Embedded Security with LdapExtLoginModule

Add the following content to the PicketBox Security Configuration File:

<application-policy name = "teiid-security-ldap">
    <authentication>
        <login-module code = "org.jboss.security.auth.spi.LdapExtLoginModule" flag = "required">
            <module-option name="java.naming.factory.initial">com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory</module-option>
            <module-option name="java.naming.provider.url">ldap://HOST:389</module-option>
            <module-option name="java.naming.security.authentication">simple</module-option>
            <module-option name="bindDN">cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com</module-option>
            <module-option name="bindCredential">redhat</module-option>
            <module-option name="baseCtxDN">ou=Customers,dc=example,dc=com</module-option>
            <module-option name="baseFilter">(uid={0})</module-option>
            <module-option name="rolesCtxDN">ou=Roles,dc=example,dc=com</module-option>
            <module-option name="roleFilter">(uniqueMember={1})</module-option>
            <module-option name="roleAttributeID">cn</module-option>
        </login-module>
    </authentication>
</application-policy>

To define security users/roles refer to your LDAP Vendors documentation. For example, if you use OpenLDAP, then with the ldif file customer-security.ldif, execute

ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com" -w redhat -f customer-security.ldif

to setup users/roles.

Tip
 module-options setting like url, bindDN, bindCredential, baseCtxDN, rolesCtxDN should match to your LDAP server setting.

To start Embedded Server with LdapExtLoginModule based security authentication via:

EmbeddedServer server =
...
EmbeddedConfiguration config = new EmbeddedConfiguration();
config.setSecurityDomain("teiid-security-ldap");
config.setSecurityHelper(new EmbeddedSecurityHelper());
server.start(config);

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