CL_HTTP_CLIENT, authentication, alternatives

We are using CL_HTTP_CLIENT to access a service on the web (another part of the same project). In other words, the SAP-system acts as a client.
We intended to use "basic authentication" (as in Internet RFC 2617), but that may be a problem for the "other side".
Which other authentication mechanisms are available (for use in this context - SAP-system as a client, using CL_HTTP_CLIENT)?
I am looking for something simple.
"WWW-authenticate Negotiate" would imply, if I am not mistaken, Kerberos.
The "other side" is using Typo3/Mittwald technology (German).
If I understand correctly, Typo3 is a PHP-based CMS, running on the Mittwald HTTPD. In our case, it is hosted at the Typo3/Mittwald corporation
I get the impression that this system uses its own authentication. I suppose it works fine when accessed by human users and their browsers, but in this context it's being accessed by an SAP-system (ABAP stack) - something different.
Edited by: Peter Van Avermaet on Feb 28, 2008 1:48 PM

Hi,
>Which other authentication mechanisms are available (for use in this context - SAP-system >as a client, using CL_HTTP_CLIENT)?
>I am looking for something simple.
It's possible to use a X.509 client certificate for authentication from the SAP abap system.
Maybe simple enough for you ?
Regards,
Olivier

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Hi
It's easy enough to 'connect' any version of OS X Server to any other version of OS X Server. Use the Join button in the Users & Groups Preferences Pane. Alternatively use the Directory Utility itself.
You seem to be misunderstanding what an Open Directory Master and Replica are? They are not what I think you think they are. They are not a 'back-up' of each other if you're providing more than the shared Directory Service.
An OD Replica maintains a read-only copy of the LDAP Database (Usernames, Passwords and Policies etc) that's stored on the OD Master and nothing more. If the Master was to go offline for any reason the Replica can be quickly promoted to a Master Role and continue to provide information for the shared directory. This assumes it has easy and quick access to the Volume storing networked home folders? The LDAP Database in that case would then become writable. Later on and whenever you've fixed the problem with the old Master it can quickly be demoted and made a Replica of the now new Master.
Although this is for 10.6 Server (it is nevertheless still applicable) everything you need to know about Master and Replica relationships is here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/OpenDirAdmin_v10.6.pdf
Page 55 onwards.
From Page 64:
"The Open Directory master and its replicas must use the same version of Mac OS X Server. . ."
If your OD Master is also providing Mail, Calendar and Contact Services then none of these will be replicated. You will have to maintain a backup of these databases yourself using whatever method you deem fit for your needs.
HTH?
Tony

LDAP External Authentication Multiple Search Base DNs question

hi,
im trying two add two LDAP search DNs to a portal 6.2 organisation.
with one search base dn it works fine.
when i add another, all ldap auth for that org stops working.
the docs confusingly state that if you have multiple search dns (not talking about multiple ldap servers here - just the search base dns) that you should prefix each entry with the local server name. the docs however provide no examples of the syntax.
can anyone provide an example for multiple search dns? e.g. is it <server:port>:o=<etc> (doesn't seem to work).
thanks

hi,
yes i have.. but when you enter more than one it stop working... with only one entry in the gui it will work for that entry but when you add another it stops working...
i had to use a manual workaround like this to get the second going... :(
External ldap authentication
register the LDAP authentication service in the gui and setup the first DN as normal.
create the first set of entries for the ldap host and the base dn in the gui as normal etc.
the gui in the admin console is not working (depending on your point of view), so you need to add the second ldap config manually -
All commands are run from the /apps/jes/SUNWam/bin directory
1. Get an encrypted value for the bind dns (cn=Directory Manager) password you want to bind to the ldap directory as by using the ampassword utility shipped with Identity Server.
./ampassword -e directory_manager password
More information on this utility can be found in the Sun ONE Identity Server Administration Guide.
2. Copy the encrypted password as the value for the iplanet-am-auth-ldap-bind-passwd in the XML file (serviceAddMultipleLDAPConfigurationRequests.xml) created in Step 1. The XML file contains a template for creating the second LDAP DN.
3. Modify the data XML file accordingly so that the relevant details are provided for the 2nd ldap server (bind dn search base etc) and load this into the portal directory using the amadmin command line tool as follows from the /opt/SUNWam/bin directory
./amadmin -u amadmin -w administrator_password -v -t serviceAddMultipleLDAPConfigurationRequests.xml
If the imported xml values are incorrect delete and reload the imported xml data using amadmin command tool. Alternatively you can modify the ldap data directly on the primary identity server (ldap server) using a client browser though this method is not supported .
You should be able to see new imported values for the second ldap server at dn:ou=subconfig1,ou=default,ou=OrganizationConfig,ou=1.0,ou=iPlanetAMAuthLDAP
Service,ou=services,ou=ORG,o=lgaq.qld.gov.au on the primary ldap server (where ORG is the organisation you wanted to add the second DN).

Dbms authentication in OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1

Hi all,
I have a problem with configuring dbms authentication in obiee 11.1.1.7.1. I followed the document below, and made all the steps.
Using Alternative Authentication Providers - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
Now, my problem is none of my dbms users can login to analytics. I can login using weblogic users, but when I try to search for any of the users from analytics, I get invalid GUID error. (I refreshed GUIDs, this is not related) According to debug steps my problem should be with adapters since I can login to em console with my db users after giving privilage, but I don't know what is wrong. Error from nqserver.log is below.
[tid: 152c] An error message was received from the BI Security Service: SecurityService::populateBIUserFromUserProfileUser XXXXXX has invalid guid 41414B494E4C49
[tid: 152c] An error message was received from the BI Security Service: SecurityService::populateBIUserFromUserProfileUser XXXXXX has invalid guid 41414B494E4C49 [[
[nQSError: 43113] Message returned from OBIS.
[tid: 152c] SecurityService::populateBIUserFromUserProfileUser XXXXXX has invalid guid 47434554494E4552
[tid: 152c] [nQSError: 43126] Authentication failed: invalid user/password.
[tid: 152c] SecurityService::populateBIUserFromUserProfileUser XXXXXX has invalid guid 47434554494E4552
[tid: 152c] [nQSError: 43126] Authentication failed: invalid user/password.
What do you think the problem could be? Any help would be appreciated.
Were anyone able to configure dbms authentication with 11.1.1.7.1 or 11.1.1.7?
Regards,
Seth

Hi Seth,
I also facing the same issue in 7.0 and 7.1,
Have you resolved this issue?
if yes, please share me the solution.
thank you in advance.

Authenticating agains AD with Kerberos, by a user with an explicit UPN

Hello
My situation :
I have a 2008 functionnal level domain with a technical name, lets say tec.domain.com
I have for this domain configured an alternate UPN : domain.com (that is only a DNS domain name, not an existing AD domain)
My users have a SamAccountName like j.doe and a UPN like [email protected] (which is their email address, on our Exchange organization)
Now, from a Linux server (running Apache and kerberos), i can do a kinit with [email protected], but not with [email protected]
When i capture trafic, the DC answers "error-code: eRR-WRONG-REALM (68)", saying it is not able to handle the DOMAIN.COM realm.
According to this article ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Cc212351.aspx ) , my DC should be able to handle it, as far as i understand it.
Am i missing something ?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Thanks for your post.
It seems like you could not enable Kerberos authentication for users logon using their alternative UPNs.
Please refer to the similar thread:
Authenticating to Active Directory using an alternate UPN
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f93e23d7-e910-4ae7-96ba-3a8038766f9f/authenticating-to-active-directory-using-an-alternate-upn?forum=winserverDS
Regards.
Vivian Wang

WS-Security, WSE, Web Services, Authentication and Flex 2

Hey All,
I've been working hard on getting Flex to communicate with a
Microsoft .NET 2.0 Web Services project enabled with WSE 3.0
WS-Security. I can't seem to get the headers into the SOAP request
that I need.
For example, I can get a SOAP header into the message like
so:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
<ns0:Security xmlns:ns0="
http://tempuri.org/">
<ns0:password>pass</ns0:password>
<ns0:username>DOMAIN\Administrator</ns0:username>
</ns0:Security>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<HelloWorld xmlns="
http://tempuri.org/" />
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
.. but, this isn't what my WSE, WS-Security enabled service
expects. Which is:
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:wsa="
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing"
xmlns:wsse="
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"
xmlns:wsu="
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">
<soap:Header>
<wsa:Action>
http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld</wsa:Action>
<wsa:MessageID>urn:uuid:5be8b55a-df7b-4547-8def-76282fcd8b47</wsa:MessageID>
<wsa:ReplyTo>
<wsa:Address>
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anonymous</wsa:Address>
</wsa:ReplyTo>
<wsa:To>
http://localhost/CampaignMojoAPI.asmx</wsa:To>
<wsse:Security soap:mustUnderstand="1">
<wsu:Timestamp
wsu:Id="Timestamp-aab299a8-81e3-4d8a-bfa4-555f38978584">
<wsu:Created>2007-06-06T20:26:37Z</wsu:Created>
<wsu:Expires>2007-06-06T20:31:37Z</wsu:Expires>
</wsu:Timestamp>
<wsse:UsernameToken xmlns:wsu="
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd"
wsu:Id="SecurityToken-b43668b1-51a3-4ba1-a90a-69eca3b98b66">
<wsse:Username>DOMAIN\Administrator</wsse:Username>
<wsse:Password Type="
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#Passwor dText">pass</wsse:Password>
<wsse:Nonce>IK4ZemfS1pj3kpdYO5+FBg==</wsse:Nonce>
<wsu:Created>2007-06-06T20:26:37Z</wsu:Created>
</wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<HelloWorld xmlns="
http://tempuri.org/" />
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
I've tried "addSimpleHeader" and "addHeader", but both seem
to inject nested xml elements. Can anyone help me shape this WS
call into the format I need it in? Would it be possible to call
this WS manually via a direct HTTP post from Flex 2?
Thanks!,
Sean

Yeah,
Hey guys - thanks for the responses. I looked into this and
it seems no one uses WS-Security from the browser. That's why even
Google's APIs use alternative key logins, etc. I read from one user
that in the next version of Microsoft's AJAX platform that they
might support it, but that's about it. For now, it looks like
there's not even an AJAX/Javascript way to do this. If we could do
it via Javascript, then we could use the FABridge. I don't think
Flex supports it. I've tried to manipulate the headers into place
via Flex classes and I don't think enough control is there to get
the output in the form that's needed.
I think it's possible to write it in Javascript. But right
now my time budget just doesn't allow for it. I already spent two
whole days re-writing how Flex makes Web Service calls so they're
synchronous with timeouts instead of this massive amount of
asynchronous code they want you to write, so no more
re-writing/extending of components for me for a while.
But if anyone wants to work together to support it via
AJAX/Javascript, I would invest money into developing it.
I would like a public WS-Security AJAX/Javascript framework
for making these calls via WS-Security so I can offer customers a
standard way of accessing/authenticating against our public API
set. It would also make it possible for Flex to access standard web
services with WS-Security enabled.
Let me know what you guys think, or if anyone else has any
good suggestions/software.
Thanks much,
S.

What is the alternative to TMG/ISA For SSL-Bridging-Capable Reverse Proxy For System Center 2012 R2 IBCM?

When I look up alternatives to TMG many other answers say something like "Don't worry about it. TMG 2010 is under support until 2020."
Well, we don't have TMG and can't buy it since it is off the market. Can it still be legitimately purchased through any resellers?
We need a reverse proxy that specifically supports SSL-Bridging so that device certificate authentication is not broken when the connection passes through the proxy.
Which reverse proxies that are currently on the market are known to work successfully with System Center Config Manager Internet-Based Client Management and also with other Microsoft products such as Lync 2010 and RD Gateway 2012 R2?
Do any Cisco ASA or ACE models support the required functionality for machine certificate authentication?
We have ISA 2006 licenses available, but I would hate to roll that out and then have to replace it in only 2 years rather than using something that can stay in place long term. Maybe we could use ISA 2006 temporarily as a stopgap if the next version
released of Windows Server Web Application Proxy would meet the requirements and can be deployed in production before ISA 2006 is completely EOL.
I hate that Microsoft keeps discontinuing all the related products to this before they have their replacements ready.

Hi,
You are correct, all TMG product sales officially ended in December 2012.
In addition, an ISA Server and a TS Gateway server can be used together to enhance security for remote connections to internal network resources. However, it
seems that ISA 2006 cannot support that on Windows Server 2012 R2. For more detailed information:
Configuring the TS Gateway ISA Server Scenario
Personally, Web application proxy would be an alternate. In addition, for the question related to Cisco product, you can contact Cisco for assistance.
Best regards,
Susie

Active Directory synchronization working, authentication not on CUBM BE5000 8.6(1a)

I successfully set up Active Directory synchronization between my CUCM BE5000 appliance running 8.6(1a) and our Windows 2008 Server Active Directory. Users are replicating successfully, but authentication is not working even though I am using the same LDAP manager distinguished name and password for both. I have a suspicion to the cause of this problem but for the record, the following is my relevant configuration:
System/LDAP/LDAP System:
LDAP Server Type Microsoft Active Directory iPlanet or Sun ONE LDAP Server OpenLDAP Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode
LDAP Attribute for User ID userPrincipalName sAMAccountName mail employeeNumber telephoneNumber
LDAP Server Type: Microsoft Active Directory
LDAP Attribute for User ID: userPrincipalName
System/LDAP/LDAP Directory:
LDAP Configuration Name: bgctnv.local
LDAP Manager Distinguished Name: CN=cm.sync,OU=BGCTNV Users,DC=bgctnv,DC=local
LDAP User Search Base: DC=bgctnv,DC=local
LDAP Server Information: bgctnv.local, port 389 (to query any domain controller in DNS; I have also tried specific IP addresses)
System/LDAP/LDAP Authentication:
LDAP Manager Distinguished Name: CN=cm.sync,OU=BGCTNV Users,DC=bgctnv,DC=local
LDAP User Search Base: LDAP user search base is formed using the User ID information (pre-populated, I cannot change this)
LDAP Server Information: bgctnv.local, port 3268
All of my Active Directory users are now populated and active under End Users. However, I am not able to log into /ccmuser among other things using my valid domain credentials. I am a super user as well as a standard end user.
Curiously, invalid usernames (userPrincipalName in my case) return the error "Log on failed - Invalid User ID or Password" while a valid username, with or without the correct password, returns only "Log on failed." That seems to imply that some part of the authentication or LDAP bind is taking place.
Here's the catch. The base domain here is bgctnv.local while we use bgctnv.org as a valid and acceptable alternative UPN suffix in Active Directory. Every Microsoft and every third-party program I have used will accept [email protected], but I'm beginning to think that CM will not, or is having some sort of translation issue. I read that alternative suffixes can cause problems in Active Directory forests with multiple trees, but this is a vanilla, single domain environment.
I don't even know where to look to debug this issue. Has anyone seen this before or can anyone tell me where to look for logs?
Thanks,
John

I found the following:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/srnd/8x/directry.html
As mentioned in the section on LDAP Synchronization, in order to support synchronization with an AD forest that has multiple trees, the UserPrincipalName (UPN) attribute must be used as the user ID within Unified CM. When the user ID is the UPN, the LDAP authentication configuration page within Unified CM Administration does not allow you to enter the LDAP Search Base field, but instead it displays the note, "LDAP user search base is formed using userid information."
This may help in some situations where there are multiple trees in an AD forest, but it is definitely not the solution. Even with multiple trees, it is common to use alternative UPN suffixes. Nothing in AD requires or even recommends that you exclusively use your AD domain root as the UPN suffix.
For example, company.local may use company.com as an alternative but primary UPN suffix to provide simplicity for users. Users can then achieve more broad SSO capabilities by using their familiar email credentials when authenticating for company.local services.
When using UserPrincipalName as the LDAP synchronization attribute for the CM User ID, the configuration requires that the search base for authentication be derived from the UPN suffix, regardless of whether it is a single domain or multiple trees within a forest. This makes it impossible to authenticate by UPN unless your UPN is explicitly your root domain name. From the example above, CM would try to bind [email protected] against DC=company,DC=com instead of the correct DC=company,DC=local.
The logical solution would be to allow the administrator the option. Why not have a choice of whether to generate the user search base from the userid (UPN) information, or be able to specify the search base as well like it allows with any other synchronization attribute?
Would this be a feature request, bug report, or neither? I'd really appreciate it if Cisco considered this but I don't know the proper channel.

Windows Integrated Authentication to SAP R/3

Hi,
I dont know weather this issue has to be posted here or in WAS or GUI.
Is there any way to do the Integrates Windows Authentication to SAP R/3. Once the Users logs in to the Network domain adn then to SAP GUI, the User should not prompt for User id and should directlt take in to the Role Menu.
I know for Portal it is possible, but i am not sure for R/3. Please let me know if there is any documentation for the same.
Thanks & Regards
Sumanth

Sumath,
there are various variants to do so:
If your R/3 is running on Windows (and in the same / trusted domain), you can use SNC with either NTLM or Kerberos authentication
Otherwise you can log on with SAP Logon Tickets. You mentioned already that you know NTLM/Kerberos is feasible with EP. Now, if you simply integrate your R/3 systems in EP by means of SAP logon tickets you have essentially a smooth SSO for your users.
Finally, you can use ITS up to 6.20 on Windows to SSO to R/3 (the latter on not neccessarily on Windows, too). Simply setup webgui, active SAP logon tickets and configure the PAS service to use Windows authentication.
Whatever you decide on, al alternatives are a piece of cake to set up.
Regards,
Dominik

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