JDEV 10.1.3.1 "ADF security" questions

Hi,
We have a couple of questions about ADF security. Hope someone knows something about it. Any help is deeply appreciated. Jdeveloper version we use is 10.1.3.1.
1. Using the ADF security to develop the application, can we deploy it to the IAS and switch to LDAP (OID) or we are obligated to use system-jazn-data.xml on IAS as well? If we have to use system-jazn-data.xml on IAS, do we need to copy the exact system-jazn-data.xml file to IAS embeddedoc4j/config directory? Any other configurations we need to do?
2. I read some documents that say it is prefered to use LDAP(OID) and
that's what we really want on the IAS. So if the answer for question 1 is we
have to use system-jazn-data.xml, does oracle have any plan for the future to
change it? I guess my question is will that be possible for us to develope the
app using system-jazn-data.xml on the developer's station (for testing
purpose) and later on we can convert it LDAP (OID) when we deploy it on IAS.
Thanks,
Annie
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user447669

Hi,
1)
can we deploy it to the IAS and switch to LDAP (OID)
yes.
If we have to use system-jazn-data.xml on IAS, do we need to copy the exact system-jazn-data.xml file to IAS embeddedoc4j/config directory?
No. Only make suere the users and user goup exist and copy the JAAS Permissions added by ADF security
2) There exist a migration utility to upload ADF Security permissions from syste-jazn-data.xml to OID. It is explained in teh OC4J security guide (chapter 7) whih comes with the Oracle Application Serber 10.1.3.1
Frank

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<web-resource-name>adfAuthentication</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/adfAuthentication</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>valid-users</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/login.html</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/error.html</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<role-name>valid-users</role-name>
</security-role>
</web-app>
Regards
Paul

Process of login with ADF security

Hi,
I was looking at how to implement the process of Login with the ADF security using JDev 11g and I feel very good...
My question is if it is possible to use this tool in case of use a container as Tomcat 6.x or JBoss. If it is possible to use ADF security for these containers, what should be configured to work?

Hi,
ok, I'd like to use authorization with ADF security, but as you say it is not possible in Tomcat. well, but could implement it, if there must be 3 users with different roles of the little system that I want to develop. Any idea?. There maybe a small example with user roles to use without authorization of ADF security?.

Web Center app with ADF Security - login problem

I have a custome Oracle Web Center app.
I have a page.html with an embedded login form posting to j_security_check. I've configured the ADF security policies to redirect to a JSPX on successful login.
When I try the correct username/password, I get redirected not to the page I defined in ADF, but to the root page http://127.0.0.1:7101/MyApp-ViewController-context-root/
and i get
Error 403--Forbidden
I've checked the weblogic.xml as per http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/2009/12/solving-error-403-forbidden-in-adf.html, all the required entries are there.
This works fine if i use a Login link with
destination="#{'/adfAuthentication?login=true&end_url=/faces/postLogin.jspx'} "
which redirects to the default login.html and then to the right page. I've copied the form from the default login.html into my master HTML page.
Hope my question is clear. Any suggestions why it is going to the wrong URL after login.
Is there anything specific I should see in the jazn-data.xml or web.xml regarding the post-login URL since i cant see that in either.
P.S. Have been advised to try here when I originally asked this in the WebCenter forum. Web Center app ADF Security - login problem
Edited by: new_to_webcenter on 18-Jan-2011 05:25

Thanks for your response Frank.
The web.xml has
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>adfAuthentication</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/adfAuthentication</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>valid-users</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/login.html</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/error.html</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
When configuring ADF Security via JDev , I chose "Redirect upon successful authentication" to the Welcome Page
"/faces/postLogin.jspx"
this then adds into web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>adfAuthentication</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>oracle.adf.share.security.authentication.AuthenticationServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>success_url</param-name>
<param-value>/faces/postLogin.jspx</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
So the sequence which works is:
Login via the '/adfAuthentication?login=true&end_url=/faces/postLogin.jspx' and this redirects to login.html (OOTB form which posts to j_security_check) and then to the postLogin.jspx
I'm trying to do away with a Login link, and trying the simple login form embedded in my page alongwith other content.
So should the form be posting to j_security_check directly or to the adfAuthentication ?

ADF security and database

Hi all,
I am implementing ADF security on my application and I came across the following Documents:
1- http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/howtos/1013/adfsecurity/adfsecurity_10132.html
2-http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/howtos/1013/oc4jjaas/oc4j_jaas_login_module.htm
and I have a few of questions :
1- in ADF security, the edit authorization options in the PageDef reads the roles (gorups) stored on the system-jazn-data.xml file. If my roles are stored on the Database how can I read them?
2- In the first document it is said " If the role name in web.xml matches a group name in system-jazn-data.xml, no further mapping is required. If the names do not match, then the web.xml role name needs to be mapped to the name in the system-jazn-data.xml using the orion-application.xml file. ". Can I do the mapping between the system-jazn-data.xml and the Database?
3-When I assign ADF security permissions on PageDefs, It will be stored in the app-jazn-data.xml file. Can I store/read those permissions from the Database and no the app-jazn-data.xml file or at least can I do some kind of mapping between the Database and this file?
thanks in advance,
Ahmad Esbita

Hi albertpi,
Thanks for you response. This is our first ADF application.
We are planning to impliment the security as mentioned above.
We can configure the LDAP users in Weblogic server.
We have a page with multiple tables which need to be shown based on the User roles.
These roles we are planning to define in the table.
1. I need to show list of users from my LDAP Users on the ADF UI to assign the roles.
2. We will be defining our list of roles in a database table, which not sure whether they need to map to ADF application security roles.
Data in table will be something like this.
User Role
Admin Tab1
Admin Tab2
Admin Tab3
User1 Tab1
User2 Tab2
User2 Tab3
Once the User is logged in we will read this table to show/hide the respective tabs.
Can you tell us are we in right path, if yes How to achieve this.
Thanks,
Satya

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I created a Webcenter App in Jdev 11.1.1.2.0 with webcenter extension.
I have 2 JSPX files.
One called mainTemplate.jspx
- contains header, footer in ADF and a center facet.
One called Welcome.jspx created from mainTemplate
- contains page customizable > panel customizable > layout customizable > various custom panel configs.
ADF security is configured with BASIC, authentication only. Because form authentication seems harder to get working.
We have one weblogic user, and currently deploy to the integrated WLS, although we'll deploy out to a full server once security/composer is working.
The problem is, when we run the Welcome.jspx, and because we added a reference to a logged in var, it requests http login fine.
We then refresh the page and see that we are indeed logged in as 'weblogic'.
Is weblogic a special user? should I create a new one? Is there any setup required on the Integrated WLS to get this working?
However when we click on 'add Content' using the composer we get a permission error.
+<RegistrationConfigurator><handleError> Server Exception during PPR, #1+
javax.el.ELException: oracle.adf.view.page.editor.security.ComposerSecurityException: You do not have permission to edit the page
+     at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:161)+
+...+
Caused by: oracle.adf.view.page.editor.security.ComposerSecurityException: You do not have permission to edit the page
+     at oracle.adfinternal.view.page.editor.bean.DialogBean.setDialogHelp(DialogBean.java:129)+
+     at oracle.adfinternal.view.page.editor.bean.DialogBean.showResourceCatalog(DialogBean.java:356)+
+     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)+
+...+
I tried using the Customization allowed var in the property inspector, but could not map 'allowed by' to a user or role that my setup would recognise. The doco specifies 'admin' which does not work for me.
In my catalog I have a WCM portlet taskflow, which will require its own permissions.
I tried enabling permissions for the test-all role to all of my pages/taskflows, leaving just the 'view' permission to the anonymous role.
I also tried authentication/authorization profiles, and building my own jspx login/error pages, but no luck there either, the login button doesn't seem to tirgger my java doLogin class, even though I set the binding on the button using the method expression builder to the bean method.
*note: I didn't try the welcome/login/error page auto create as they generate html files, I created JSFs with full UI in there. Am I required to use those html types instead of jspx? I found that the redirection worked by appending the jspx reference with '/faces/Login.jspx'. The problem seemed to have been somewhere else.
If we have any Webcenter Composer / Security gurus out there, help would be greatly appreciated.
Our main goal is to create a Webcenter App which has security/composer/navigation and a catalog with WCM/Siebel portlets similar to the Avitek demo without using WC Spaces.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Edited by: Guillaume_Davies_SC on Apr 20, 2010 7:28 PM

When you want to achieve this you need to configure ADF security with basic authentication & authorization. THe authorization is the part that takes care of what a user may and may not do in an application. Authentication is just the log in part.
When you have configured your application for authorization as well, you have to create roles and groups.
You will also have to set the authorization of your pages. Open a jsxp and in the design or source view, right click and "edit authorization". You then have to add roles to your pages and define their rights. Then you can set the authorization for edit,cuustomize,personlise,view,...
Hope this helps.

ADF security : How to get fnd_users list in weblogic server

Hi All,
I have a question related to ADF security.
I am able to apply ADF security to the application, where users information and roles are defined in jazn.xml file.
On deployment, users/ roles information is being successfully ported to weblogic server.
But my requirement is to fetch users information from fnd_users table. If you have any idea as how to get the fnd_users data to weblogic, please reply.
Thanks,
Randhir

Thanks John.
I went through the link and got steps for authentication with fnd_users.
I have one more question on this.
Do I need to enable jazn.xml for implementing security or only the steps given in this link is sufficient?
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