[keycloak-user] Keycloak adapter with policies returns bad request

Richard van Duijn rjvduijn at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 07:35:04 EST 2016


Thank you for clarifying that! Much appreciated!
I'm progressing with my adapter. Using the Photoz example I can login and
authorize requests going to the photoz-restfull-api (which in my case is my
play application).
But one resource refuses to load for non-admin users. Namely the
/album/create resource returns an Unauthorized. I will try to elaborate on
what I am currently doing. Hopefully someone can point me the error.


   1. The javascript frontend application calls the
   /photoz-rest-api/album/create resource using a post with the bearerToken
   received from the login.
   2. Then my PlayFramework controller Action is intercepted and the
   bearerToken is verified using the: AdapterRSATokenVerifier.verifyToken()
   method.
   3. If succceful the KeycloakAdapterPolicyEnforcer is used to authorize
   my request using the photoz policies.
   4. This returns 401 in case of the user Alice, and is accepted in case
   of Admin.

What I do no understand is that the Policy Evaluator in the admin console
results in a PERMIT in case of Alice accessing the album resource with
scope 'Create'. But the KeycloakAdapterPolicyEnforcer tells Alice is
Unauthorized. Am I missing a vital point in the process?

The entitlements I have for Alice are the following (which clearly states
the user is allowed to create on the album resource):
*{*
* "jti": "6fa19f41-f720-4285-965f-e4373544346c",*
*  "exp": 1481632355,*
*  "nbf": 0,*
*  "iat": 1481632055,*
*  "iss": "http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/photoz
<http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/photoz>",*
*  "aud": "photoz-html5-client",*
*  "sub": "85e9868e-262e-4290-8a23-93f8392cffd7",*
*  "typ": "Bearer",*
*  "azp": "photoz-html5-client",*
*  "nonce": "55b16f6b-5af9-40de-871e-ab8712bd1f57",*
*  "auth_time": 1481631352,*
*  "session_state": "73453cd9-01df-4124-a9ca-585352c0e040",*
*  "name": "Alice In Chains",*
*  "given_name": "Alice",*
*  "family_name": "In Chains",*
*  "preferred_username": "alice",*
*  "email": "alice at keycloak.org <alice at keycloak.org>",*
*  "acr": "0",*
*  "client_session": "2e16eade-c3a2-40ae-b766-3bac6b89d4d4",*
*  "allowed-origins": [*
*    "*"*
*  ],*
*  "realm_access": {*
*    "roles": [*
*      "uma_authorization",*
*      "user"*
*    ]*
*  },*
*  "resource_access": {*
*    "photoz-restful-api": {*
*      "roles": [*
*        "manage-albums"*
*      ]*
*    }*
*  },*
*  "authorization": {*
*    "permissions": [*
*      {*
*        "scopes": [*
*          "urn:photoz.com:scopes:album:view",*
*          "urn:photoz.com:scopes:album:create"*
*        ],*
*        "resource_set_id": "71996b0c-48c1-44c9-8fda-d0ba46b451b7",*
*        "resource_set_name": "Album Resource"*
*      },*
*      {*
*        "scopes": [*
*          "urn:photoz.com:scopes:profile:view"*
*        ],*
*        "resource_set_id": "0236b990-40dd-4bf3-9a49-25bc3bc6273c",*
*        "resource_set_name": "User Profile Resource"*
*      }*
*    ]*
*  }*
*}*

/Richard



Op do 8 dec. 2016 om 21:11 schreef Pedro Igor <psilva at redhat.com>:

Yeah, I missed that part too :)

Clients marked as bearer-only are not allowed to access the token endpoint.
However, you can still use bearer-only in your keycloak.json (adapter
config) to indicate that only requests with a bearer token are allowed to
access your resource server (backend-client).

Regards.
Pedro Igor

On 12/8/2016 5:46:25 PM, Richard van Duijn <rjvduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
Pedro,
I've imported the json file myself and I was able to fetch the AT with
postman and things work now. The only difference I see in the server
configuration is that I had confired the backend-client with Access-Type
'Bearer-only', which (after the import) is now 'Confidential'..

In my perception i had to configure the backend-client with a bearer-only
access-type as it does do any logins just as the 'bearer-only:true' flag in
the adapter config json.
Am I mistaken here?
Well at least I can continue now. but still this seems a bit odd to me.
Thank you again for your great help! It is much appreciated!
/Richard

Op do 8 dec. 2016 om 13:49 schreef Richard van Duijn <rjvduijn at gmail.com>:

You've got me confused as well.. haha

No I'm not reaching the lines using the policyEnforcer. The error occurs
earlier in the process.

Could you perhaps explain what you send in the postman request.
What is put in it the request is the following:


*requestHeaders.put("Authorization",
BasicAuthHelper.createHeader(Configuration.this.clientId, secret));*
with the clientId being: *backend-client* and the secret being:
*6ce718ad-2ab1-42ff-bf01-35a03eab3aee*
resulting in the header: *Authorization : Basic
YmFja2VuZC1jbGllbnQ6NmNlNzE4YWQtMmFiMS00MmZmLWJmMDEtMzVhMDNlYWIzYWVl*

Other than that I do not have any clues what is wrong.

The AT request is generated during startup of my backend server. So I do
not yet have any frontend rest calls containing a bearerToken comming in.
My assumption is that I can initialize the keycloakDeployment once for my
entire application and then use it for each call comming in. Am I correct?
My guess now is that this assumption is wrong.

/Richard


Op do 8 dec. 2016 om 13:05 schreef Pedro Igor <psilva at redhat.com>:

On 12/8/2016 7:06:44 AM, Richard van Duijn <rjvduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pedro,
Thank you for the reply.

Fist I'll answer your questions, then I'll clarify my setup a bit more.
Please find attached my realm config file as well.


   - The realm name was a typo. In the meantime I've reconfigured my realm
   to ensure the '.' char was not messing up. Turned out not to be the case.
   - I'm not able to retrieve an AT from keycloak for the backend-client
   (which is set to bearer-only). With the given Postman request I just get
   the 400 bad request error and accompanying message.

*Pedro Igor:* I was able to get an AT after importing your realm and
sending the same postman request. Now I'm confused :) The client is
backend-client, correct ?


   - I've followed the getting started guid up to securing the jboss
   servlet. I've stopped there as I wanted to use a keycloak distribution in
   combination with a PlayFramework application (for which there is no adapter
   available yet).

I've followed the steps from this
<http://bandrzejczak.com/blog/2015/11/22/single-sign-on-with-keycloak-in-a-sigle-page-application-part-1-slash-2-angular-dot-js/>
post
to get the bearerToken approach working. Using the *AdapterRSATokenVerifier*
class I was able to verify the bearerToken received from the javascript
frontend. What I basically have is a filter that intercepts the frontend
requests, picks up the bearerToken and checks it's validity. If valid the
resource is accessible otherwise the user receives an error.


The next step was to include policies in the setup. Setting up the adapter
for the playFramework was a bit difficult as there is no real documentation
on that subject, only example implementations like the ones for spring
security and jetty. But before getting to the complex logic I've added the
policy-enforcer: {} line in the keycloak.json config file for the
backend-client. This json is then loaded and used in
*KeycloakDeploymentBuilder.build(keycloakConfig)*. This is the point where
it fails, as the config contains the policy-enforcer line, the
PolicyEnforcer class is initialized, which in turn attempts to retrieve the
AT from keycloak.

Is there some flaw in my reasoning?

   1. The javascript frontend authenticates itself using the keycloak.js
   adapter. It adds the accessToken to the Authorization header for the
   rest-client to pickup
   2. The rest client (my backend-client) verifies the bearerToken using
   the AdapterRSATokenVerifier
   3. Then the rest client checks the authorization using the folliwing
   lines of code:


*final PolicyEnforcer policyEnforcer =
keycloakDeployment.getPolicyEnforcer();BearerTokenPolicyEnforcer
bearerTokenPolicyEnforcer = new BearerTokenPolicyEnforcer(policyEnforcer);*
*final AuthorizationContext authorizationContext =
bearerTokenPolicyEnforcer.authorize(facade);*

*Pedro Igor:* It looks correct. Although it seems you are not even reaching
the line above where permissions are actually enforced. Besides, make sure
you have all bearer token validations in place based on other adapters we
have.

You are almost there. You just need to figure out why you can't obtain an
AT from the server even if using postman, curl, etc. I think that if you
solve this, you will get everything working (or hit some new issue after
this one :)).


Hope this clarifies it a bit. I've attached my realm configuration json
file. By the way I'm using keycloak 2.4.0-Final.
Many many thanks for your help!

If this approach is valid I'm hapy to contribute my code to the community
for others to work with.
/Richard

Op do 8 dec. 2016 om 01:13 schreef Pedro Igor <psilva at redhat.com>:

Hi Richard,

In your first message, it seems the token endpoint is
http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/local.development/protocol/openid-connect/token.Here
 you are using a realm "local.development".

In your last message with the postman request, you are using a token
endpoint like this /auth/realms/development/protocol/openid-connect/token.
Where the realm is "development", the same you have used in keycloak.json.

Would that be a misconfiguration or just a typo ?

Besides, what happens when you send that postman request to the server ?
Are you able to get a AT ?

This is pretty much what the enforcer does during initialization, obtain a
AT before querying the Protection API for protected resources. And is what
your stack trace shows.

If you are not able to obtain a token using the postman request, it
probably means you have something wrong with your realm/client
configuration on the server.

Last question, are you able to run any of our authorization examples ? Or
even successfully follow our Getting Started guide ?

Thanks.
Pedro Igor

On 12/7/2016 12:05:10 PM, Richard van Duijn <rjvduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
Forgot to include the postman request.. here it is:

POST /auth/realms/development/protocol/openid-connect/token HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
Authorization: Basic
YmFja2VuZC1jbGllbnQ6NmNlNzE4YWQtMmFiMS00MmZmLWJmMDEtMzVhMDNlYWIzYWVl
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=client_credentials

/Richard

Op wo 7 dec. 2016 om 15:00 schreef Richard van Duijn <rjvduijn at gmail.com>:

Somehow I do not get any logs in keycloak server.log. I've attempted to
change the loglevel in standalone.xml to TRACE, but to no avail. Maybe you
can give me a pointer to which logger I should change to see the correct
logs show up.

Besides that I've done some debugging using Postman as well. Using the
following request I get the message:
{
    "error": "invalid_client",
    "error_description": "Bearer-only not allowed"
}

This is weird to me as the keycloak.json file states that I am connecting
to a bearer-only client.

Hope this helps to clarify it for you.
My keycloak.json configuration file looks like this:

{
  "realm": "development",
  "bearer-only": true,
  "auth-server-url": "http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth",
  "ssl-required": "external",
  "resource": "backend-client",
  "use-resource-role-mappings": true,
  "credentials": {
    "secret": "SECRETHERE"
  },
  "policy-enforcer": {}
}

Hope this helps to clarify some of your questions.
/Richard

Op wo 7 dec. 2016 om 12:47 schreef Pedro Igor <psilva at redhat.com>:

Do you get anything in server logs ? It may be related with invalid client
credentials.

On 12/6/2016 12:41:38 PM, Richard van Duijn <rjvduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm creating a POC application using playframework and angular. The
frontend will be protected using the keycloak javascript adapter and the
backend rest services will be a bearer-only application.

Without the policies turned on in the keycloak.json everything goes well.
But when I turn the policies by adding "policy-enforcer": { } on for the
rest services, I get an 400 Bad Request response from the Keycloak server
during initialization.
After some debugging I noticed it had to do with the initialization of the
PolicyEnforcer which attempts to call the following server keycloak
endpoint:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/local.development/protocol/openid-connect/token

Below you will find the stacktrace and request and response objects.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction. For instance how to
configure keycloak logging to get some more details on what the reason for
the 400 bad request is.
Many many thanks!
/Richard



*Stacktrace*:

at
org.keycloak.authorization.client.util.HttpMethod.execute(HttpMethod.java:92)

at
org.keycloak.authorization.client.util.HttpMethodResponse$2.execute(HttpMethodResponse.java:48)

at
org.keycloak.authorization.client.AuthzClient.obtainAccessToken(AuthzClient.java:112)

at
org.keycloak.authorization.client.AuthzClient.protection(AuthzClient.java:91)

at

org.keycloak.adapters.authorization.PolicyEnforcer.(PolicyEnforcer.java:57)

at
org.keycloak.adapters.KeycloakDeploymentBuilder.internalBuild(KeycloakDeploymentBuilder.java:126)

at
org.keycloak.adapters.KeycloakDeploymentBuilder.build(KeycloakDeploymentBuilder.java:135)

at
security.KeycloakSecurityModule.configure(KeycloakSecurityModule.java:53)
at com.google.inject.AbstractModule.configure(AbstractModule.java:62)
... many google guice calls ...
at
play.core.server.DevServerStart$$anonfun$mainDev$1$$anon$1$$anonfun$get$1.apply(DevServerStart.scala:129)

at
play.core.server.DevServerStart$$anonfun$mainDev$1$$anon$1$$anonfun$get$1.apply(DevServerStart.scala:121)



*Request object*:

builder = {RequestBuilder at 12557}
method = "POST"
charset = {UTF_8 at 12563} "UTF-8"
version = null
uri = {URI at 12564} "
http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/local.development/protocol/openid-connect/token
"
headergroup = {HeaderGroup at 12565} "[Authorization: Basic
YmFja2VuZC1jbGllbnQ6NmNlNzE4YWQtMmFiMS00MmZmLWJmMDEtMzVhMDNlYWIzYWVl]"
entity = null
parameters = {LinkedList at 12566} size = 1
0 = {BasicNameValuePair at 12576} "grant_type=client_credentials"
config = null

*Response object*:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request [Connection: keep-alive, X-Powered-By: Undertow/1,
Server: WildFly/10, Content-Type: application/json, Content-Length: 72,
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:24:28 GMT]
org.apache.http.conn.BasicManagedEntity at 1f8d1780
response = {$Proxy16 at 12554} "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request [Connection:
keep-alive, X-Powered-By: Undertow/1, Server: WildFly/10, Content-Type:
application/json, Content-Length: 72, Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:24:28 GMT]
org.apache.http.conn.BasicManagedEntity at 1f8d1780"
h = {CloseableHttpResponseProxy at 12583}
original = {BasicHttpResponse at 12584} "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
[Connection: keep-alive, X-Powered-By: Undertow/1, Server: WildFly/10,
Content-Type: application/json, Content-Length: 72, Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016
12:24:28 GMT] org.apache.http.conn.BasicManagedEntity at 1f8d1780"
statusline = {BasicStatusLine at 12556} "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request"
ver = {HttpVersion at 12586} "HTTP/1.1"
code = 400
reasonPhrase = "Bad Request"
entity = {BasicManagedEntity at 12555}
reasonCatalog = {EnglishReasonPhraseCatalog at 12588}
locale = {Locale at 12589} "en_US"
headergroup = {HeaderGroup at 12590} "[Connection: keep-alive,
X-Powered-By: Undertow/1, Server: WildFly/10, Content-Type:
application/json, Content-Length: 72, Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:24:28 GMT]"
params = {ClientParamsStack at 12591}

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