[security-dev] PicketLink Usecase: SAML/GWT/REST Authentication

[Bill Burke]

Ok, apologies.  Last time I looked at your SAML stuff it didn't support 
roles and was implemented as a servlet filter.

On 6/27/2013 11:27 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
> * SAML tokens can contain information about the subject, issuer,
> authentication, authorization decisions and attributes (that can be
> roles). It is just a rich XML token.
> * PicketLink SAML stuff is deeply integrated with Wildfly App Server via
> the JBossWeb authenticators/valves.  We have not looked at Undertow yet.
>
> On 06/27/2013 10:23 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>> I don't think the SAML token includes role information.  Also, I don't
>> believe the Picketlink SAML stuff is integrated with the app server,
>> correct?  meaning you can't get integrated Java EE security.
>>
>> On 6/27/2013 11:15 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>>> Eric,  semantics is close to the SAML OAuth2 Bearer Token Profile.
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer-16.txt
>>>
>>> Maybe in the future there may be opportunities to replace SAML SSO in GWT UI
>>> by lightweight JSON based SSO probably involving JSON Web Token (JWT).
>>>
>>> On 06/27/2013 06:59 AM, Eric Wittmann wrote:
>>>> Right - I think OAuth2 is likely the proper way to go about solving
>>>> this.  The only reason I didn't go down that road was that I wanted to
>>>> align with the version of picketlink included in EAP.  In a future
>>>> version of Overlord (next product cycle) I'm guessing we'll switch from
>>>> SAML to OAuth2.  Assuming the proper functionality is available out of
>>>> the box in whatever version of EAP is available at that time.
>>>>
>>>> -Eric
>>>>
>>>> On 06/26/2013 04:42 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>>>> Resteasy has already implemented something like this, but not SAML based:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/3.0.1.Final/userguide/html/oauth2.html
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/26/2013 2:45 PM, Eric Wittmann wrote:
>>>>>> Everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll just add a few more details to (hopefully) help add context.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have multiple UI applications in the Overlord world, and we wanted
>>>>>> them all to be secured using SSO.  PicketLink/SAML worked very well to
>>>>>> accomplish this, and it was trivial to get all of the UI WARs protected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once the GWT apps themselves are protected, the browser can make RPC
>>>>>> calls to the originating context for free, and the servlets being
>>>>>> invoked will have a JAAS authenticated user.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The last piece is then making REST calls to some *other* web context on
>>>>>> behalf of the JAAS user.  The REST services might be hosted in some
>>>>>> other context on the same server or even on some other server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the approach is to issue a SAML token that contains the principal and
>>>>>> all its roles, then pass that in an HTTP header when invoking the remote
>>>>>> REST services.  The REST services are protected by two login modules - a
>>>>>> standard BASIC auth login module and another one that can consume a SAML
>>>>>> token.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is a vital piece still missing, which is to actually sign the SAML
>>>>>> token when sending, and verifying the signature when consuming.  If
>>>>>> anyone would like to help with that it'd be super helpful!  :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lastly - I'm certainly not a security expert, and am happy to be shown a
>>>>>> better way to solve this use case going forward (note: we needed to use
>>>>>> the version of picketlink that comes with EAP 6.1 - fwiw).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Eric
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/26/2013 02:18 PM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>           this is a use case solved by Eric Wittman of Project Overlord using
>>>>>>> PicketLink.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Final Solution in Eric's words:
>>>>>>> Use-case is:  GWT UI app is protected by SAML SSO.  The UI makes GWT RPC
>>>>>>> calls back to itself.  The UI RPC servlets (server-side) then make REST
>>>>>>> calls to a set of REST services hosted in another web application, using
>>>>>>> SAML tokens for authentication.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> JIRA: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DTGOV-11
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Background:
>>>>>>> Eric had gotten his GWT UI App to use SAML SSO using PicketLink. He was
>>>>>>> looking for ways to now make calls from the GWT app to REST services on
>>>>>>> RESTEasy without re-authentication.He needed to get this usecase working
>>>>>>> with PicketLink and RESTEasy bundled in EAP6. During discussions and
>>>>>>> future plan, it was decided to use OAuth for REST services and look at
>>>>>>> SAML Bearer Token Profile for guidance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Solution:
>>>>>>> Since RESTEasy authentication can use JAAS authentication,  Eric wrote a
>>>>>>> login module for SAML bearer tokens.
>>>>>>> https://github.com/Governance/overlord-commons/blob/master/overlord-commons-auth/src/main/java/org/overlord/commons/auth/jboss7/SAMLBearerTokenLoginModule.java
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I created a JIRA issue in PicketLink to migrate this login module:
>>>>>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PLINK-165
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This login module will be available in PicketLink v2.5.0
>>>>>>> https://github.com/anilsaldhana/picketlink-bindings/blob/0808a9916093af6095430447e6899172fe19e86a/picketlink-jbas-common/src/main/java/org/picketlink/trust/jbossws/jaas/SAMLBearerTokenLoginModule.java
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wanted to open a thread for discussion on this. I am unsure if other
>>>>>>> projects have similar needs but this use case is pretty awesome to share
>>>>>>> here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Anil
>>>>>>>
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