[aerogear-dev] Direct access to UnifiedPush Server's REST without OAuth

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Thu Jun 5 09:09:56 EDT 2014


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:

>
> Thank you Stian.
>
> @tkriz @matzew Atm I'm working on the item 2 from Stian's comments, as
> soon as I get admin-ui integrated with keycloak.js. Once the integration
> is finished I can look at item 1 — IMO not a top priority ATM, because
> it only affects cURL.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>

correct - and the QE test-suite.

I am fine in doing that close to 1.0.0 or even for 1.0.1 (depending on how
busy the July will be)

Makes sense ?





>
> On 2014-06-05, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> > As I suggested this, I'll add a bit more information.
> >
> > It makes sense to have two applications for UPS in Keycloak:
> >
> > 1) A bearer-only application for the REST endpoints - this application
> does not allow logins and hence won't redirect to login screens, but return
> 401/403. It will authenticate through the bearer token passed in the
> headers. Any roles for UPS should be created for this application. Also,
> the KC adapter (BootstrapListener) is configured for this application, as
> that secures the REST endpoints
> > 2) A public application for the Admin Console - this applications allows
> logins. This should have scope mappings on roles in the application above.
> This is used for the JS console, and I would recommend using keycloak.js.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Matthias Wessendorf" <matzew at apache.org>
> > > To: "Tadeas Kriz" <tkriz at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "AeroGear Developer Mailing List" <aerogear-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, 5 June, 2014 9:47:21 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [aerogear-dev] Direct access to UnifiedPush Server's REST
>      without OAuth
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Tadeas Kriz < tkriz at redhat.com >
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > as you might know, in the integration tests we only test the REST
> backend,
> > > making sure it works as intended. Before Keycloak, every action was
> > > achievable using the REST, that included login, logout and user
> management.
> > > We don’t need the user management for sure, but login and logout is an
> > > another story. Now with Keycloak anyone who wants to just use REST
> calls,
> > > still need to login using the Keycloak.
> > >
> > > My question is, do we want users to be able to access the REST without
> OAuth?
> > > If we do, it would probably mean we need to have two Keycloak
> applications,
> > >
> > > What do you mean here? Are you suggestion two WAR files (for each
> 'keycloak
> > > application') ? Or just more a declarative setup?
> > >
> > >
> > > one for the UI which would still use OAuth and second one for REST
> calls
> > > which would use Bearer only. This would also mean that when someone
> makes a
> > > REST call to an endpoint without being authorized, he would receive 401
> > > response, instead of 302 redirect (before Keycloak, the response was
> 401 in
> > > case of unauthorized access).
> > >
> > > yeah, I think the RESTful APIs behind the 'AdminUI' for the
> > > 'application/variant management' should continue to work. (I doubt
> there is
> > > much usage of those outside of the AdminUI)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > —
> > > Tadeas Kriz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Matthias Wessendorf
> > >
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