Security constraints not being applied after using custom login module

I am using form based authentication and I applied the custom login module - DBProcLoginModule to work with the embedded OC4J (JDeveloper 10.1.3.2). I have specified two security contraints in web.xml. The authentication is working correctly, however the security contraints are not being applied. All users are able to access all url resources. The security constraints were working properly before applying the custom login module. Pls help.
Leena

Hi,
if "All users are able to access all url resources" then this indicates that the RL isn't properly protected. If the authorization would fail then noone would have access and you would see error code 401
Make sure the role names in web.xml are the same as added by the LoginModule. Also make sure you set the dynamic.role property and the custom security provider property in the orion-application.xml
<jazn provider="XML">
<property name="custom.loginmodule.provider" value="true"/>
<property name="role.mapping.dynamic" value="true"/>
</jazn>
Note that the above is not required (because done automatically) if the custom LoginModule configuration is deployed through the orion-application.xml file
Frank

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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("The servlet has received a GET. This is the reply.");
 out.println(" getRemoteUser = " + request.getRemoteUser());
 out.println(" getUserPrincipal = " + request.getUserPrincipal());
 out.println(" isUserInRole('sr_Admin') = "+request.isUserInRole("sr_Admin"));
 out.println(" 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

<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.

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I trying to use Custom Login Modules as described on :
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/howtos/10g/jaassec/index.htm
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Wrote EAR file to D:\_JDEV1013.APPs\jaasdatabaseloginmodule\JDeveloper1012Workspaces\DBLMTest\Project\deploy\DBLMTest.ear
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However, I have been trying Option 2 now. In web.xml, I have specified a login page with FORM scheme. The login redirects it to another page say OAM_Authentication_Handler.jsp. Here we code which serves atn and atz. Upon doing this, I have observed that the protected resource in OAM is not getting evaluated using the method
String ms_protocol = "http";
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Everything is working after deployment.
Occasionally it becomes non working after restarting of application or container and
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for non authenticated user ( anonymous ).
How to find the problem of misworking login module ?
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Hello,
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- i am writing a web app. the EAR file contains 5 ejbs, 1 war and bunch of java classes in jars.
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Hi Astrid,
I guess I have the same understanding of JAAS as you. I want to deploy an application that internally makes use of JAAS to authenticate users. There is a LoginModule that authenticates users against some database tables containing all the user data and profile. The application was not designed to be deployed to NetWeaver. So it does not make use of UME or some other NetWeaver specific feature. Actually it handles user management and authoroization issues completely on its own. The only reason for having JAAS is to allow customers to plug in their own LoginModule to use some other kind of user store.
When deploying the web application to a simple servlet engine like Tomcat, all I have to do is to register my LoginModule in the "jaas.conf" file that is parsed by JAAS default implementation. I also tell the JVM where my jaas.conf file is located by appending a "-Djava..." runtime parameter to the JVM startup script.
When using other application servers like IBM WebSphere things become a bit different. Normally you use the administration GUI of that server to configure your LoginModules. WebSphere for example keeps the login configuration in an internal database rather than writing everything into a "jaas.conf" text file. But the way the application can use the LoginModule is the same as in Tomcat.
But when it comes to Netweaver, it seems to me that it's not possible to define a LoginModule that your application can use WITHOUT having to couple it tightly to UME. Or did I get something wrong? Initially I've tried to modify the JVM's parameters (using SAP J2EE Config Tool) to include the location of my "jaas.conf" file containing the my login configuration. But that did not work. The parameter was really passed to the JVM but anyway my LoginModule was not found, I guess that NetWeaver has some own implementation of the JAAS interfaces that just ignore the plain text JAAS configuration files (like WebSphere also does).
The documentation that I have downloaded from SDN doesn't seem to match the 6.4 sneak preview version that I just downloaded some days ago. They say you should deploy your LoginModule as a library and add a refernce to the application. I tried that out but it did not help. The login configuration that the application wants to access is still not found. Actually there seems to be no way to specify the name for a JAAS Login Configuration in NetWeaver. At least I cound not find that in the documentation.
So basically my question is: is it possible to deploy an application that wants to use some own LoginModule (either deployed separately or together with the application, that does not matter) without making use of Netweaver specific features like UME? The application has its own user management infrastructure and just needs a way to setup a JAAS Login Configuration to access its own LoginModule.
Thanks in advance
Henning

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I am measuring some load cells using a I 9237. I am setting the null offset using Device > Bridge Calibration in the DAQ Assistant. I measure the offet and hit calibrate. It says "Calibration successful" and I hit finish, but the offset value is not applied to the data.
How do I get this to work?

Hello IamRubber,
How can you see the calibration not being applied? Are you running the same DAQ Assistant to see the offset? If possible, please attach a screenshot from before/after running bridge calibration.
Patrick W.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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Hi ,
I have a problem wherein i am unable to change the format of the date.
I need the date to be in the format 'January 10,2010.' however the date is being displayed as '1/10/10'. I have tried all options for the date formatting. I specified the custom format as 'MMMM D,YYYY' as mentioned in the SAP Library. I am trying to use the std custom options like YYYY-MM-DD, the date is not being dispalyed in the custom format provided by SAP either.
I have binded date from the context, used the Current Date field provided by SAP. Nothing works.
Its not working on the new form. However the old forms have the same kind of formatting and are being displayed as desired.
Please suggest as to what the issue could be.
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Soumya.

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Even I'm encountering the same issue. I'm trying to control the outputted date format programmatically.Please have a look.
data: v_int_date like sy-datum,
v_ext_date(10).
v_int_date = '20110201'
write v_int_date to v_ext_date MM/DD/YYYY.
Here I've tried to convert the date to external format using a fixed format(MM/DD/YYYY). But still it's getting outputted in the format DD/MM/YYYY only as that's the way its defined in the User Master!
Is there any solution for this? How can I 'override' defaults in the SAP User Master?
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Mahesh

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Ohemod,
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I have a group policy that used to work, but now has decided it does not want to be applied to the workstations anymore. I don't know what may have happened to make is stop working.
It's a pretty restrictive policy for students. I have the exact same policy for two other groups of students that still work. All three policies were copied from the same set of files. In other words, I make a change to one, then copy the files to the other two because they reside on different servers. Yes, I do open each one in C1 to update the timestamp.
When I run wmsched, the policy is there in the list, but the settings are not applied. I can log in to the PC with one of the other student accounts and their policy is applied.
The login I'm using to test with has R rights to the policy location - the same rights that the other users have to their policies. I have also tried more rights with no different results.
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I can't play any purchased movies. Sounds like it is the 6.0 update. So what is the fix? Am I just stuck not being able to use my Apple TV until...?

Sorry I can't help but I have potentially a similar problem.
We have an Apple TV 3 and after the most recent software update (potentially coincidental timing), our purchased movies & TV shows will no longer play for our US account. We can play previews but that's it. We also tried renting a new movie but that didn't work either. No error messsage, just select play, it thinks about it, then returns you to the same screen again.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[svn:osmf:] 14871: Fixing anchoring 'right' and 'bottom' properties not being applied on items that don't have a width/ height and position set.

Revision: 14871
Revision: 14871
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-03-19 01:05:54 -0700 (Fri, 19 Mar 2010)
Log Message:
Fixing anchoring 'right' and 'bottom' properties not being applied on items that don't have a width/height and position set.
Modified Paths:
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