I have used lifeary service builder to build my services. some of my services require that the user is authenticated before he can use them.
how can i generate an auth token and send it in the header or in the URL?
I have tried username#host.com:password#http://localhost:8080/PortletName-portlet/api/jsonws/?serviceClassName=com.service.NameServiceUtil&serviceMethodName=getMyNames&serviceParameters=[userid]&userid=1
and it did not work!
I have made sure i have added the below line in my portal-ext.properties and restarted the server.
json.service.auth.token.enabled=true
What more should i do to be able to pass Auth Token? is there a better method that i can use?
You actually want to use AuthVerifier. This is the best way how to access the Liferay API and be authenticated. It similar to the autologin concept.
Have a look at https://dev.liferay.com/es/discover/deployment/-/knowledge_base/7-0/authentication-verifiers and check out the PortalSessionAuthVerifier class in the source code.
The concept is quite simple. Read the request object and determine who the user is. Perform your custom authentication and return the auth result with the user identification.
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I'm using local strategy for authentication purpose using featherjs framework.
Besides username and password auth mechanism, client wants to login using username and OTP.
Can someone provide me hint, how can I achieve this?
I've studied existing framework featherjs-authentication, I could not understand how can I extend it to support this need.
I could solve the problem using package feathers-authentication-custom
It gives you a hook wherein you can add your auth verifier. In my case, I keep OTP associated with user id. When user calls authenticate with custom strategy, the verifier middleware gets called. Here I verify the OTP and pass back the token to the client.
I am trying to work out an application using
Dotnet Core 1.0
MySQL as the data store
Authetication and Authorization
Entity Framework
Ubuntu 16 machine
I have succeeded in creating a sample API to fetch data from MySQL database using entity framework. Now I want to introduce Authentication using email as username and Password.
I tried several method from different blogs but unable to achieve this.
What I am trying to achieve is Custom Authentication for the api where user will send username and password to login Api. The login Api will return an access token and refresh token. Using this access token, the user can call other APIs.
Later on I want to add Google and Facebook Authentication too.
Is there a way to do this?
Everything you want to achieve is possible. However there are some caveats.
Yes you can do this. You will need to use the resource owner grant which is turned off in identityserver 4 by default. I suspect the reason for this is because passing user credentials into an application is an anti-pattern, it is there to typically support legacy systems, also it does not authenticate users in the explicit sense because the credentials could come from an un-trusted source (as an example). You can read up about the grant's generic value here. You can find samples here.
The safer pattern is to use something like Implicit Flow which is good practice if you cannot guarantee trust between clients and your API.
As for social logins this is possible. There are tonnes of samples online but here are the official docs.
There is a project on github, https://github.com/diogodamiani/IdentityServer4.MongoDB and a corresponding nuget package that will send you in the right direction. It's obviously MongoDb, but the same premise applies.
I am implementing spring oauth2 for securing my rest api. Basically i am limiting the use of rest api to particular users rather then limiting to every users.
I had implemented the backend and secured my api using spring oauth2.
I am following this steps:
1)Send the GET request with the five parameters.
localhost:8080/SpringRestSecurityOauth/oauth/token?grant_type=password&client_id=Awyi123nasdk89&client_secret=asdj39m32##$s&username=rahul#gmail&password=rahul#9831
2) Server validates the user with the help of spring security and return the json response with access code.
{
"access_token": "22cb0d50-5bb9-463d-8c4a-8ddd680f553f",
"token_type": "bearer",
"refresh_token": "7ac7940a-d29d-4a4c-9a47-25a2167c8c49",
"expires_in": 119
}
3)I access protected resources by passing this access token as a parameter, the request goes something like this:
localhost:8080/SpringRestSecurityOauth/api/users/?access_token=8c191a0f-ebe8-42cb-bc18-8e80f2c4238e
4) In case the token is expired, user needs to get a new token using its refreshing token that was accepted in step(2). A new access token request after expiration looks something like this:
localhost:8080/SpringRestSecurityOauth/oauth/token?grant_type=refresh_token&client_id=restapp&client_secret=restapp&refresh_token=7ac7940a-d29d-4a4c-9a47-25a2167c8c49
All the above step are working fine. Now i need to implement this on my client side. So that a particular client can access this call. I am using HTML/CSS as client side technology.
How client can get the access token? Should it be stored in the browser local storage? Or it should be generated every time the rest call is been made?
Any example would help me to proceed further.
I'm implementing my project like you. I use angularjs and get the access token from response json then store it into cookies.
This link provide sample code for you: http://www.baeldung.com/rest-api-spring-oauth2-angularjs. (See Frontend - Password Flow).
Because refresh token should keep secret and the client is html app, you should see this link http://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-oauth2-refresh-token-angular-js for handling refresh token.
For html client, after obtaining access token using refresh token when access token is expired, I use http-auth-interceptor ([http]://witoldsz.github.io/angular-http-auth/) to retry all rest requests failed because of expired access token.
I'm sorry that I have not enough reputation to post more than 2 links.
I am working on an Identity management application, using which my goal is to manage users on Box application.
I was going through Box documentation, and there are two ways for authentication
OAuth 2.0, which has redirection URI as required parameter. And due to which I cannot make use of it, since I will not be able to enter username and password and Authorize dynamically using my Java code.
Reference: https://box-content.readme.io/reference#oauth-2
JWT authentication, this I can use in my code and successfully get Access token. But problem here is, this access token can only be used to manage App Users (who will not have login to Box website).
Reference: https://box-content.readme.io/docs/box-developer-edition
So, is there any other authentication mechanism which I can use for getting Access token for managing Box users?
Regards,
Sandeep
The current best option is #1 with a process like this:
Create a Box application with the 'Manage an Enterprise' scope enabled.
Use a web-based access token generator (such as this or this) to get an initial access/refresh token pair. Save these somewhere safe (flat file, DB).
Code your application to initialize itself with the access/refresh token pair from its saved location.
When the access/refresh token pair is refreshed, write them out to the save location.
If your application runs across multiple nodes/processes this approach will require some (painful) coordination between them. I believe Box is working on some improvements in this area, so you may not have to live with this for long.
how to make a login call using the Box API methods in my webservice?
I can only see a URL, that redirects to a Box login Page, where user needs to endter username and password, but this I need this as a webservice call.
Does anyone have done it usig API ?
Regards Sathish
You can find the full details here, but in short, you can set a callback URL for your app at http://www.box.com/developers/services that Box will send the authentication token to. You can set up your web service to receive the token there.
The way Box's authentication flow is designed is to prevent the need for users to provide 3rd parties (you in this case) with their credentials. The fact that there is no mechanism to authenticate a user by passing their credentials through a web service call is deliberate, and there is no straightforward work around I'm aware of (especially no such workaround that would be consistent with the terms of use of their API).
http://developers.box.com/get-started/#authenticating
There is a new authentication mechanism they have in the pipeline which will allow you to authenticate to a sandboxed folder for your application using a much simpler process. This is currently in private beta. This might fit the needs of what you are looking for once it is available.
http://developers.box.com/docs/#tokens