Using exsitingOracle infra to secure web services

Our system currently uses an Oracle RDBMS for security - users and roles are defined
within the database. We are now adding web services and EJBs using WLS 8.1. I'd
like to leverage the existing security database by either having WLS use it directly
or somehow intialize the necessary WLS security structures from the Oracle database.
The idea is to not change the way security is handled now (and thereby not perturb
legacy apps) but also not add additional administrative tasks such as defining
users and roles to WLS. I've read almost all the security related documentation
and theres so much there that one or both approaches seem feasible but I'm not
sure. Is either or both approaches feasible and can someone layout the high-level
steps needed?
Thanks in advance,
Jack

See:
http://newsgroups.bea.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=article&group=weblogic.developer.interest.security&item=9930&utag=
Jack Ottofaro wrote:
>
Our system currently uses an Oracle RDBMS for security - users and roles are defined
within the database. We are now adding web services and EJBs using WLS 8.1. I'd
like to leverage the existing security database by either having WLS use it directly
or somehow intialize the necessary WLS security structures from the Oracle database.
The idea is to not change the way security is handled now (and thereby not perturb
legacy apps) but also not add additional administrative tasks such as defining
users and roles to WLS. I've read almost all the security related documentation
and theres so much there that one or both approaches seem feasible but I'm not
sure. Is either or both approaches feasible and can someone layout the high-level
steps needed?
Thanks in advance,
Jack

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===================
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Thanks for your reply.I am using the following policy steps:
1)for Request (Decrypt and Verify signature).
2)for Response(Sign Message and Encrypt).
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Pipeline "Request"
Pipeline Steps:
Start Pipeline
Log
Decrypt and Verify Signature
Basic Properties Type Default Value
Enabled (*) boolean true true
XML Decryption Properties Type Default Value
Decryptor''s keystore location (*) string C:\Sun\jwsdp-2.0\xws-security\etc\server-keystore.jks
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Decryptor''s private-key password string *******
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Verifying Keystore location (*) string C:\Sun\jwsdp-2.0\xws-security\etc\server-truststore.jks
Verifying Keystore type (*) string jks jks
Verifying Keystore password string *******
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Pipeline "Response"
Pipeline Steps:
Start Pipeline
Log
Sign Message and Encrypt
Basic Properties Type Default Value
Enabled (*) boolean true true
Signing Properties Type Default Value
Signing Keystore location (*) string C:\Sun\jwsdp-2.0\xws-security\etc\server-keystore.jks
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Signing Keystore password string *******
Signer''s private-key alias (*) string s1as
Signer''s private-key password string *******
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Sign XPATH Expression string
Sign XML Namespace string[]
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Encryption Keystore location (*) string C:\Sun\jwsdp-2.0\xws-security\etc\server-truststore.jks
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Encryption Keystore password string *******
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Encrypt XPATH Expression string
Encrypt XML Namespace string[]
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2006-08-14 16:34:50,364 INFO [Thread-16] mstore.OLiteMStore - SELECT MEASUREMENT_STR FROM MEASUREMENT_PERSISTED_STORE WHERE ID=? FOR UPDATE
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Message was edited by:
Roy Cohen

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AS
l_request soap_api.t_request;
l_response soap_api.t_response;
l_url VARCHAR2(32767);
l_namespace VARCHAR2(32767);
l_method VARCHAR2(32767);
l_soap_action VARCHAR2(32767);
l_doc xmltype;
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p_namespace => l_namespace);
soap_api.add_parameter(p_request => l_request,
p_name => 'param1',
p_type => 'xsd:string',
p_value => 'val1');
soap_api.add_parameter(p_request => l_request,
p_name => 'param2',
p_type => 'xsd:string',
p_value => 'val2');
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p_url => l_url,
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Thanks in advance.
-Smith

Thanks again Billy,
I have configured a wallet with all the necessary certificates. Actually I have purchased a VeriSign trusted certificate and convert that into Oracle Wallet (p12) using openssl with appropriate password. And I'm calling UTL_HTTP.set_wallet('<path_to_wallet>','<pass_to_open_it>');
I have send my public key to them (web service company) and they need me to send my certificate with every request so that they can authenticate.
You are saying we don't have to write any code for TLS/SSL UTL_HTTP will take care of that, thats really good.
One more thing I want to mention here...
In Internet Explorer - When I am importing my certificate without my private key and trying to access web service I'm getting 404 page not found error.
But when I'm importing my certificate with the private key, I can see WSDL and all other methods offered by that web service.
I'm guessing Oracle Wallet that I'm creating with my certificate will store private key also. B'coz it is showing me User Certificate in Ready state.
ORA-00600 is not giving me proper location where I can find any error in my code.
Thanks
-Smith

Secured web service for secured AM method

Hello,
I need to invoke method of secured Application Module (jbo.security.enforce = Must) from secured web service.
I have a simple java class with Configuration.createRootApplicationModule ... and a web service built for this java class.
I found I have to authentificate users twice. First time when invoking web service (this is ok) and second time when creating application module instance.
The problem is I can get name of user logged in web service but I cannot get his password. So I cannot login to application module with the same user.
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Rado

Hi Mayank,
Chapter 7, Custom Serialization of Java Value Types, of the Web services developer guide may be a good place to get started.
All the best,
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2. configure it to use your access manager instance for authentication.
3. configure your webservices client to use the webservice provider. (note: you'd need the webservices APi's available on the client too... so the quick dirty method would be to install the webservices agent on your client too....) you can later bundle the webservices client independently and provide your"customers" with a webservices client bundle...
4. voila... your webservices are not "protected" by acces manager ;-)

Securing Web Services

I am hoping others in this forum will share their experiences involving securing web services. What I would like to know is your thoughts on industry best practices for securing web services.
I have been asked to look at the different industry approaches. From what I have read SUN, the simplest approach may be using WS-Security standard. This uses XML Signatures and XML encryption and can be placed in the header portion of the SOAP message. On the other hand, the most complicated is using an LDAP server for single sign.
What is our driving forces is the least amount of effort is the best solution as long as security is not compromised.
Thanks in advance for all your comments.

The first thing you need to do is understand what your requirements are. The solution needs to match your requirements.
You need to distinguish authentication from authorization from data security and what your requirements are for each.
You need to understand the administrative overhead and how you will manage sertificates or userid/passwords. This can oftentimes involve more work than the web service itself.
Don't "overkill" the solution. For example, don't use message-level encryption when an SSL connection will suffice for data security.
-- Frank
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/ThreatCounter.asp
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid26_gci995388,00.html
IBM: sg246891_WebSphere_Web_Services_Handbook_5_1_1.pdf

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