Custom Login Module from OAS 10.1.3.1

This may be more of a JDEV question as it has less to do with configuration...
Will a custom login module written for OAS 10.1.3.1 work in Web Logic? Or will I have to scrap my current custom login module?

MODERATOR: Can this be moved to the JDeveloper Forum please?

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  • How to call custom Login Module from JSP

    Hi,
    I am stuck with the following issue:
    1) Exactly as presented in help.sap.com (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3f/1be040e136742ae10000000a155106/content.htm) I created custom login module and deployed it as a library on J2EE server. When I configured it to be used for my applications in the Security provider but I am getting "No user name provided" exception everytime when my applications use this custom login module.
    2) I realized that I would need to call my custom module somewhere within my application (simple JSP) using LoginContext class and then use MyLoginContext.login() spec to initiate login process. But I am not able to pass CallbackHandler parameters from JSP application to my custom login module.
    So I have the following questions:
    1. Can I pass parameters using LoginContext and CallbackHandler from JSP to my custom login module (created as exact copy of HELP.SAP.COM example) or this module cannot be used this way.
    2. How to pass CallbackHandler correctly to my custom login module from JSP. When I am trying to use CallbackHandler, I am getting "Abstract Class cannot be called" error.
    I'd appreciate any little help on this matter.
    Thanks and regards,
    Mike

    You have two alternatives to do this:
    You can declare your JSP as a protected resource with the use of the deployment descriptors of the application (web.xml) and add the custom login module in the authentication stack of the application. This way, you will use container-based authentication, i.e. the Web Container will enforce the authentication and it will call the custom login module before it dispatches to the JSP. I recommend you this approach because it requires less coding and it makes the whole thing a matter of configuration. The configuration can be later on enhanced or changed runtime without the need to re-build and re-deploy the application. If you choose this approach you can go to the documentation of the server for help on how to modify the login module stack of the application.
    You can also use programmatic authentication by using JAAS API. To do this you need to create a custom security policy configuration with login module stack containing the custom login module, and then use the standard JAAS mechanism - new LoginContext(<configuration>, <callback-handler>).login(). This approach requires that you write your own callback handler and handle any LoginException.
    Let us know which approach you prefer and whether you have difficulties implementing it!

  • Return HTTP Response Code from custom login module

    Hi,
    I´m trying to set an HTTP Response Code from a custom login module. Getting HTTP Headers works, so basically the approach is working.
    What I do is:
    HttpSetterCallback responseSetterCallback = new HttpSetterCallback();
    responseSetterCallback.setType(HttpSetterCallback.RESPONSE_CODE);
    responseSetterCallback.setValue("401");
    _callbackHandler.handle(new Callback[] );
    When executing on a J2EE 6.40 I get the following error:
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: hsc.getType()==8 not yet supportedhsc.getType()==8 not yet supported
    (with Type 8 standing for Response Code)
    It looks as if this feature has not been implemented yet (although been described in the SAP documentation). How can I fix this problem, is there any workaround to set the Response Code in another way?
    Thanks!
    Kind regards,
    Daniela

    Hi Daniela,
    sorry for the late reply - you may have resolved your problem now, but still wanted to follow up on it in case others experience the same.
    The support for this type in the callback is available from SP12 on. I guess you're using a lower SP. So, if you upgrade, you'll get the problem resolved (otherwise, I'm not aware of any workarounds.)
    Hope that helps!

  • Help - using custom login module with embedded jdev oc4j to access ejb 3

    Hi All (Frank ??),
    I'm just wondering if anyone has successfully been able to leverage a custom login module in combination
    with a client that connects to a local EJB 3 stateless session bean through Jdeveloper 10.1.3.2's embedded oc4j.
    I have spent 2+ days trying to get this to work - and i think I resound now to the fact im going to
    have to deploy to oc4j standalone instead.
    I got close.. but finally was trumped with the following error from the client trying to access the ejb:-
    javax.naming.NoPermissionException: Not allowed to look up XXXXXX, check the namespace-access tag
    setting in orion-application.xml for details.
    Using the various guides available, I had no problem getting the custom login module working
    with a local servlet running from JDev's embedded oc4j.. however with ejb - no such luck.
    I have a roles table (possible values Member, Admin) - that maps to sr_Member and sr_Admin
    respectively in various config files.
    I'm using EJB 3 annotations for protecting methods .. for example
    @RolesAllowed("sr_Member")
    Steps that I had to do so far :-
    In <jdevhome>\jdev\system\oracle.jwee.10.1.3.40.66\embedded-oc4j\config\system-jazn-data.xml1) Add custom login module
        <application>
          <name>current-workspace-app</name>
          <login-modules>
            <login-module>
              <class>kr.security.KnowRushLoginModule</class>
              <control-flag>required</control-flag>
              <options>
                <option>
                  <name>dataSource</name>
                  <value>jdbc/DB_XE_KNOWRUSHDS</value>
                </option>
                <option>
                  <name>user.table</name>
                  <value>users</value>
                </option>
                <option>
                  <name>user.pk.column</name>
                  <value>id</value>
                </option>
                <option>
                  <name>user.name.column</name>
                  <value>email_address</value>
                </option>
                <option>
                  <name>user.password.column</name>
                  <value>password</value>
                </option>
                <option>
                  <name>role.table</name>
                  <value>roles</value>
                </option>
                <option>
                  <name>role.to.user.fk.column</name>
                  <value>user_id</value>
                </option>
                <option>
                  <name>role.name.column</name>
                  <value>name</value>
                </option>
              </options>
            </login-module>
          </login-modules>
        </application>2) Grant login rmi permission to roles associated with custom login module (also in system-jazn-data.xml)
      <grant>
        <grantee>
          <principals>
            <principal>
              <realm-name>jazn.com</realm-name>
              <type>role</type>
              <class>kr.security.principals.KRRolePrincipal</class>
              <name>Admin</name>
            </principal>
          </principals>
        </grantee>
        <permissions>
          <permission>
            <class>com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIPermission</class>
            <name>login</name>
          </permission>
        </permissions>
      </grant>
      <grant>
        <grantee>
          <principals>
            <principal>
              <realm-name>jazn.com</realm-name>
              <type>role</type>
              <class>kr.security.principals.KRRolePrincipal</class>
              <name>Member</name>
            </principal>
          </principals>
        </grantee>
        <permissions>
          <permission>
            <class>com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIPermission</class>
            <name>login</name>
          </permission>
        </permissions>
      </grant>3) I've tried creating various oracle and j2ee deployment descriptors (even though ejb-jar.xml and orion-ejb-jar.xml get created automatically when running the session bean in jdev).
    My ejb-jar.xml contains :-
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <ejb-jar xmlns ....
      <assembly-descriptor>
        <security-role>
          <role-name>sr_Admin</role-name>
        </security-role>
        <security-role>
          <role-name>sr_Member</role-name>
        </security-role>
      </assembly-descriptor>
    </ejb-jar>Note- i'm not specifying the enterprise-beans stuff, as JDev seems to populate this automatically.
    My orion-ejb-jar.xml contains ...
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <orion-ejb-jar ...
      <assembly-descriptor>
        <security-role-mapping name="sr_Admin">
          <group name="Admin"></group>
        </security-role-mapping>
        <security-role-mapping name="sr_Member">
          <group name="Member"></group>
        </security-role-mapping>
        <default-method-access>
          <security-role-mapping name="sr_Member" impliesAll="true">
          </security-role-mapping>
        </default-method-access>
      </assembly-descriptor>My orion-application.xml contains ...
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <orion-application xmlns ...
      <security-role-mapping name="sr_Admin">
        <group name="Admin"></group>
      </security-role-mapping>
      <security-role-mapping name="sr_Member">
        <group name="Member"></group>
      </security-role-mapping>
      <jazn provider="XML">
        <property name="role.mapping.dynamic" value="true"></property>
        <property name="custom.loginmodule.provider" value="true"></property>
      </jazn>
      <namespace-access>
        <read-access>
          <namespace-resource root="">
            <security-role-mapping name="sr_Admin">
              <group name="Admin"/>
              <group name="Member"/>
            </security-role-mapping>
          </namespace-resource>
        </read-access>
        <write-access>
          <namespace-resource root="">
            <security-role-mapping name="sr_Admin">
              <group name="Admin"/>
              <group name="Member"/>
            </security-role-mapping>
          </namespace-resource>
        </write-access>
      </namespace-access>
    </orion-application>My essentially auto-generated EJB 3 client does the following :-
          Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "matt.shannon");
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "welcome1");
          final Context context = new InitialContext(env);
          KRFacade kRFacade = (KRFacade)context.lookup("KRFacade");
    ...And throws the error
    20/04/2007 00:55:37 oracle.j2ee.rmi.RMIMessages
    EXCEPTION_ORIGINATES_FROM_THE_REMOTE_SERVER
    WARNING: Exception returned by remote server: {0}
    javax.naming.NoPermissionException: Not allowed to look
    up KRFacade, check the namespace-access tag setting in
    orion-application.xml for details
         at
    com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIClientConnection.handleLookupRe
    sponse(RMIClientConnection.java:819)
         at
    com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIClientConnection.handleOrmiComm
    andResponse(RMIClientConnection.java:283)
    ....I can see from the console that the user was successfully authenticated :-
    20/04/2007 00:55:37 kr.security.KnowRushLoginModule validate
    WARNING: [KnowRushLoginModule] User matt.shannon authenticated
    And that user is granted both the Admin, and Member roles.
    The test servlet using basic authentication correctly detects the user and roles perfectly...
      public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
                        HttpServletResponse response)
        throws ServletException, IOException
        LOGGER.log(Level.INFO,LOGPREFIX +"doGet called");
        response.setContentType(CONTENT_TYPE);
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println("<html>");
        out.println("<head><title>ExampleServlet</title></head>");
        out.println("<body>");
        out.println("<p>The servlet has received a GET. This is the reply.</p>");
        out.println("<br> getRemoteUser = " + request.getRemoteUser());
        out.println("<br> getUserPrincipal = " + request.getUserPrincipal());
        out.println("<br> isUserInRole('sr_Admin') = "+request.isUserInRole("sr_Admin"));
        out.println("<br> isUserInRole('sr_Memeber') = "+request.isUserInRole("sr_Member"));Anyone got any ideas what could be going wrong?
    cheers
    Matt.
    Message was edited by:
    mshannon

    Thanks for the response. I checked out your blog and tried your suggestions. I'm sure it works well in standalone OC4J, but i was still unable to get it to function correctly from JDeveloper embedded.
    Did you ever get the code working directly from JDeveloper?
    Your custom code essentially seems to be the equivalent of a grant within system-jazn-data.xml.
    For example, the following grant to a custom jaas role (JAAS_ADMIN) that gets added by my custom login module gives them rmi login access :-
         <grant>
              <grantee>
                   <principals>
                        <principal>
                             <realm-name>jazn.com</realm-name>
                             <type>role</type>
                             <class>kr.security.principals.KRRolePrincipal</class>
                             <name>JAAS_Admin</name>
                        </principal>
                   </principals>
              </grantee>
              <permissions>
                   <permission>
                        <class>com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIPermission</class>
                        <name>login</name>
                   </permission>
              </permissions>
         </grant>If I add the following to orion-application.xml
      <!-- Granting login permission to users accessing this EJB. -->
      <namespace-access>
        <read-access>
          <namespace-resource root="">
            <security-role-mapping>
              <group name="JAAS_Admin"></group>
            </security-role-mapping>
          </namespace-resource>
        </read-access>Running a standalone client against the embedded jdev oc4j server gives the namespace-access error.
    I tried out your code by essentially creating a static reference to a singleton class that does the role lookup/provisioning with rmi login grant :-
    From custom login module :-
      private static KRSecurityHelper singleton = new KRSecurityHelper();
      protected Principal[] m_Principals;
        Vector v = new Vector();
          v.add(singleton.getCustomRmiConnectRole());
          // set principals in LoginModule
          m_Principals=(Principal[]) v.toArray(new Principal[v.size()]);
    Singleton class :-
    package kr.security;
    import com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIPermission;
    import java.util.logging.Level;
    import java.util.logging.Logger;
    import oracle.security.jazn.JAZNConfig;
    import oracle.security.jazn.policy.Grantee;
    import oracle.security.jazn.realm.Realm;
    import oracle.security.jazn.realm.RealmManager;
    import oracle.security.jazn.realm.RealmRole;
    import oracle.security.jazn.realm.RoleManager;
    import oracle.security.jazn.policy.JAZNPolicy;
    import oracle.security.jazn.JAZNException;
    public class KRSecurityHelper
      private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger("kr.security");
      private static final String LOGPREFIX = "[KRSecurityHelper] ";
      public static String CUSTOM_RMI_CONNECT_ROLE = "remote_connect";
      private RealmRole m_Role = null;
      public KRSecurityHelper()
        LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,LOGPREFIX +"calling JAZNConfig.getJAZNConfig");
        JAZNConfig jc = JAZNConfig.getJAZNConfig();
        LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,LOGPREFIX +"calling jc.getRealmManager");
        RealmManager realmMgr = jc.getRealmManager();
        try
          // Get the default realm .. e.g. jazn.com
          LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,LOGPREFIX +"calling jc.getGetDefaultRealm");
          Realm r = realmMgr.getRealm(jc.getDefaultRealm());
          LOGGER.log(Level.INFO,LOGPREFIX +"default realm: "+r.getName());
          // Access the role manager for the remote connection role
          LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,
            LOGPREFIX +"calling default_realm.getRoleManager");
          RoleManager roleMgr = r.getRoleManager();
          LOGGER.log(Level.INFO,LOGPREFIX +"looking up custom role '"
            CUSTOM_RMI_CONNECT_ROLE "'");
          RealmRole rmiConnectRole = roleMgr.getRole(CUSTOM_RMI_CONNECT_ROLE);
          if (rmiConnectRole == null)
            LOGGER.log(Level.INFO,LOGPREFIX +"role does not exist, create it...");
            rmiConnectRole = roleMgr.createRole(CUSTOM_RMI_CONNECT_ROLE);
            LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,LOGPREFIX +"constructing new grantee");
            Grantee gtee = new Grantee(rmiConnectRole);
            LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,LOGPREFIX +"constructing login rmi permission");
            RMIPermission login = new RMIPermission("login");
            LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,
              LOGPREFIX +"constructing subject.propagation rmi permission");
            RMIPermission subjectprop = new RMIPermission("subject.propagation");
            // make policy changes
            LOGGER.log(Level.FINEST,LOGPREFIX +"calling jc.getPolicy");
            JAZNPolicy policy = jc.getPolicy();
            if (policy != null)
              LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, LOGPREFIX
                + "add to policy grant for RMI 'login' permission to "
                + CUSTOM_RMI_CONNECT_ROLE);
              policy.grant(gtee, login);
              LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, LOGPREFIX
                + "add to policy grant for RMI 'subject.propagation' permission to "
                + CUSTOM_RMI_CONNECT_ROLE);
              policy.grant(gtee, subjectprop);
              // m_Role = rmiConnectRole;
              m_Role = roleMgr.getRole(CUSTOM_RMI_CONNECT_ROLE);
              LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, LOGPREFIX
                + m_Role.getName() + ":" + m_Role.getFullName() + ":" + m_Role.getFullName());
            else
              LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING,LOGPREFIX +"Cannot find jazn policy!");
          else
            LOGGER.log(Level.INFO,LOGPREFIX +"custom role already exists");
            m_Role = rmiConnectRole;
        catch (JAZNException e)
          LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING,
            LOGPREFIX +"Cannot configure JAZN for remote connections");
      public RealmRole getCustomRmiConnectRole()
        return m_Role;
    }Using the code approach and switching application.xml across so that namespace access is for the group remote_connect, I get the following error from my bean :-
    INFO: Login permission not granted for current-workspace-app (test.user)
    Thus, the login permission that I'm adding through the custom remote_connect role does not seem to work. Even if it did, i'm pretty sure I would still get that namespace error.
    This has been such a frustrating process. All the custom login module samples using embedded JDeveloper show simple j2ee servlet protection based on settings in web.xml.
    There are no samples showing jdeveloper embedded oc4j using ejb with custom login modules.
    Hopefully the oc4j jdev gurus like Frank can write a paper that demonstrates this.
    Matt.

  • Custom login module on OC4J 10.1.3.3.0

    Hi,
    I need to implement custom web form-based authentication on OC4J, in order to port an existing JBoss app. I was following Frank's example at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/howtos/10g/jaassec/index.htm. Trying to access protected pages will correctly redirect to the j_security_check page, and from there call my custom login module - through LoginContext. The issue is that - even if the LoginModule correctly authenticates user's credentials, the request still doesn't get through, coming back to the authentication page.
    I perform the deployment using Oracle Enterprise Manager, and the relevant files are:
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    <login-config>
    <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
    <realm-name>testJAAS</realm-name>
    <form-login-config>
    <form-login-page>/jsp/login.jsp</form-login-page>
    <form-error-page>/jsp/login.jsp</form-error-page>
    </form-login-config>
    </login-config>
    <!-- Security constraints -->
    <security-constraint>
         <web-resource-collection>
         <web-resource-name>Test Secure Application</web-resource-name>
         <description>Requires users to authenticate</description>
         <url-pattern>faces/*</url-pattern>
         <http-method>POST</http-method>
         <http-method>GET</http-method>
         <http-method>HEAD</http-method>     
         <http-method>PUT</http-method>     
         </web-resource-collection>     
         <auth-constraint>
         <description>Only allow role1 users</description>
         <role-name>role1</role-name>
         </auth-constraint>     
         <user-data-constraint>
         <description>Encryption is not required for the application in general. </description>
         <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
         </user-data-constraint>
    </security-constraint>
    <!-- Define the security role(s) -->
    <security-role>
    <description>Example role</description>
    <role-name>role1</role-name>
    </security-role>
    orion-web.xml:
    schema-major-version="10" schema-minor-version="0" >
         <!-- Uncomment this element to control web application class loader behavior.
              <web-app-class-loader search-local-classes-first="true" include-war-manifest-class-path="true" />
         -->
         <resource-ref-mapping name="jdbc/lics" />
         <security-role-mapping name="role1">
              <group name="oc4j-app-administrators" />
         </security-role-mapping>
         <web-app>
         </web-app>
    orion-application.xml:
         <jazn provider="XML" >
              <property name="jaas.username.simple" value="true" />
              <property name="custom.loginmodule.provider" value="true" />
              <property name="role.mapping.dynamic" value="true" />
         </jazn>
    system-jazn-data.xml:
    <jazn-loginconfig>
         <application>
              <name>le5</name>
              <login-modules>
                   <login-module>
                        <class>com.tx.lic.oc4jsx.ext.LicLoginModule</class>
                        <control-flag>required</control-flag>
                        <options>
                             <option>
                                  <name>defaultRole</name>
                                  <value>role1</value>
                             </option>
                        </options>
                   </login-module>
              </login-modules>
         </application>
    I assume something is wrong with the deployment configuration, b/c when I specifically add users to the defined role1 role, it works fine(see below). But this is not an option, since users should only be specified in the data store of the LoginModule.
    Doing as above, the orion-web.xml is below:
         <resource-ref-mapping name="jdbc/lic" />
         <security-role-mapping name="role1">
              <group name="oc4j-app-administrators" />
              <user name="user1" />
              <user name="user2" />
         </security-role-mapping>
    Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks.

    Hi,
    role to group mapping doesn't seem to work for custom LoginModules. This means hat your web applcation (web.xml) should use th same role names as used on the database authentication. So remove
    <security-role-mapping name="role1">
    <group name="oc4j-app-administrators" />
    </security-role-mapping>
    from orion-web.xml and it should start wrking
    Frank

  • RFC Call in a custom login module

    Hi All,
    What is the best way to call a RFC/BAPI from a Custom Login Module, part of the login stacks?
    I want to avoid using JCo Client Service, do not want to hard code the connection values in the class.
    Have anyone of you come across such a situation?
    Can the custom login module access the Portal Runtime resources, like the Connector Gateway Service/Destination Service?
    Or it just runs inside the j2EE container?
    Thanks for your help
    Aakash
    Edited by: Aakash Jain on Nov 24, 2008 11:42 PM

    Hi All,
    What is the best way to call a RFC/BAPI from a Custom Login Module, part of the login stacks?
    I want to avoid using JCo Client Service, do not want to hard code the connection values in the class.
    Have anyone of you come across such a situation?
    Can the custom login module access the Portal Runtime resources, like the Connector Gateway Service/Destination Service?
    Or it just runs inside the j2EE container?
    Thanks for your help
    Aakash
    Edited by: Aakash Jain on Nov 24, 2008 11:42 PM

  • Custom Login Module - Commit Method return TRUE always?

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    However, the JAVA Sun standard indicates that commit should return FALSE if the preceding login method returned FALSE.
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    Regards,
    Kevin

    Hi Kevin,
    I'm actually working with this document: <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/events/webinars/jaas%20login%20module%20development%20on%20webas%20java%20640.pdf#search=%22classloader%20sda%20jar%20reference%22">JAAS Login Modules</a>.
    There is also example code. If it should be ignored they return false, otherwise true (page 32).
    Regards,
    Marcus
    Message was edited by: Marcus Freiheit

  • J2EE 6.40 Custom Login Module - how to config

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