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Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Making it safe for your systems to work together
Version 6.3
Copyright © 2011-2020 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
27 Oct 2020
Abstract
This guide describes how to secure the Red Hat JBoss Fuse container, the web console, message brokers, routing and integration components, web and RESTful services, and it provides a tutorial on LDAP authentication.
Chapter 1. Security Architecture
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Abstract
In the OSGi container, it is possible to deploy applications supporting a variety of security features. Currently, only the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) is based on a common, container-wide infrastructure. Other security features are provided separately by the individual products and components deployed in the container.
Note
Red Hat provides a single sign-on option (Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1) that works with JAAS to enhance security for certain web client applications and services running inside JBoss Fuse and Fuse administration services (SSH, JMX, and Fuse Management Console). Red Hat Single Sign-On requires at least the patch version, 6.3.0 Roll Up 1, but 6.3.0 Roll Up 2 is recommended.
For details on installing and using Red Hat Single Sign-On on JBoss Fuse, see the Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1 Securing Applications and Services Guide.
1.1. OSGi Container Security
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Overview
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Figure 1.1, “OSGi Container Security Architecture” shows an overview of the security infrastructure that is used across the container and is accessible to all bundles deployed in the container. This common security infrastructure currently consists of a mechanism for making JAAS realms (or login modules) available to all application bundles.
Figure 1.1. OSGi Container Security Architecture
JAAS realms
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A JAAS realm or login module is a plug-in module that provides authentication and authorization data to Java applications, as defined by the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) specification.
Red Hat JBoss Fuse supports a special mechanism for defining JAAS login modules (in either a Spring or a blueprint file), which makes the login module accessible to all bundles in the container. This makes it easy for multiple applications running in the OSGi container to consolidate their security data into a single JAAS realm.
karaf realm
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The OSGi container has a predefined JAAS realm, the
karaf realm. Red Hat JBoss Fuse uses the karaf realm to provide authentication for remote administration of the OSGi runtime, for the Fuse Management Console, and for JMX management. The karaf realm uses a simple file-based repository, where authentication data is stored in the InstallDir/etc/users.properties file.
You can use the
karaf realm in your own applications. Simply configure karaf as the name of the JAAS realm that you want to use. Your application then performs authentication using the data from the users.properties file.
Console port
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You can administer the OSGi container remotely either by connecting to the console port with a Karaf client or using the Karaf
ssh:ssh command. The console port is secured by a JAAS login feature that connects to the karaf realm. Users that try to connect to the console port will be prompted to enter a username and password that must match one of the accounts from the karaf realm.
JMX port
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You can manage the OSGi container by connecting to the JMX port (for example, using Java's JConsole). The JMX port is also secured by a JAAS login feature that connects to the
karaf realm.
Application bundles and JAAS security
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Any application bundles that you deploy into the OSGi container can access the container's JAAS realms. The application bundle simply references one of the existing JAAS realms by name (which corresponds to an instance of a JAAS login module).
It is essential, however, that the JAAS realms are defined using the OSGi container's own login configuration mechanism—by default, Java provides a simple file-based login configuration implementation, but you cannot use this implementation in the context of the OSGi container.
1.2. Apache Camel Security
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Overview
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Figure 1.2, “Apache Camel Security Architecture” shows an overview of the basic options for securely routing messages between Apache Camel endpoints.
Figure 1.2. Apache Camel Security Architecture
Alternatives for Apache Camel security
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As shown in Figure 1.2, “Apache Camel Security Architecture”, you have the following options for securing messages:
- Endpoint security—part (a) shows a message sent between two routes with secure endpoints. The producer endpoint on the left opens a secure connection (typically using SSL/TLS) to the consumer endpoint on the right. Both of the endpoints support security in this scenario.With endpoint security, it is typically possible to perform some form of peer authentication (and sometimes authorization).
- Payload security—part (b) shows a message sent between two routes where the endpoints are both insecure. To protect the message from unauthorized snooping in this case, use a payload processor that encrypts the message before sending and decrypts the message after it is received.A limitation of payload security is that it does not provide any kind of authentication or authorization mechanisms.
Endpoint security
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There are several Camel components that support security features. It is important to note, however, that these security features are implemented by the individual components, not by the Camel core. Hence, the kinds of security feature that are supported, and the details of their implementation, vary from component to component. Some of the Camel components that currently support security are, as follows:
- JMS and ActiveMQ—SSL/TLS security and JAAS security for client-to-broker and broker-to-broker communication.
- Jetty—HTTP Basic Authentication and SSL/TLS security.
- CXF—SSL/TLS security and WS-Security.
- Crypto—creates and verifies digital signatures in order to guarantee message integrity.
- Netty—SSL/TLS security.
- MINA—SSL/TLS security.
- Cometd—SSL/TLS security.
- glogin and gauth—authorization in the context of Google applications.
Payload security
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Apache Camel provides the following payload security implementations, where the encryption and decryption steps are exposed as data formats on the
marshal() and unmarshal() operations
XMLSecurity data format
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The XMLSecurity data format is specifically designed to encrypt XML payloads. When using this data format, you can specify which XML element to encrypt. The default behavior is to encrypt all XML elements. This feature uses a symmetric encryption algorithm.
For more details, see http://camel.apache.org/xmlsecurity-dataformat.html.
Crypto data format
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The crypto data format is a general purpose encryption feature that can encrypt any kind of payload. It is based on the Java Cryptographic Extension and implements only symmetric (shared-key) encryption and decryption.
For more details, see http://camel.apache.org/crypto.html.
Chapter 2. Securing the Container
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Abstract
The Red Hat JBoss Fuse container is secured using JAAS. By defining JAAS realms, you can configure the mechanism used to retrieve user credentials. You can also refine access to the container's administrative interfaces by changing the default roles.
2.1. JAAS Authentication
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Abstract
The Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) provides a general framework for implementing authentication in a Java application. The implementation of authentication is modular, with individual JAAS modules (or plug-ins) providing the authentication implementations.
For background information about JAAS, see the JAAS Reference Guide.
2.1.1. Default JAAS Realm
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Overview
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This section describes how to manage user data for the default JAAS realm in a standalone container.
Default JAAS realm
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The Red Hat JBoss Fuse container has a predefined JAAS realm, the
karaf realm, which is used by default to secure all aspects of the container.
How to integrate an application with JAAS
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You can use the
karaf realm in your own applications. Simply configure karaf as the name of the JAAS realm that you want to use.
Default JAAS login modules
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When you start JBoss Fuse for the first time, the container is configured as a standalone container and uses the
karaf default realm. In this default configuration, the karaf realm deploys four JAAS login modules, which are enabled simultaneously. To see the deployed login modules, enter the jaas:realms console command, as follows:
Important
In a standalone container, both the properties login module and the public key login module are enabled. When JAAS authenticates a user, it tries first of all to authenticate the user with the properties login module. If that fails, it then tries to authenticate the user with the public key login module. If that module also fails, an error is raised.
Note
The
FileAuditLoginModule login module and the EventAdminAuditLoginModule login module are used to record an audit trail of successful and failed login attempts. These login modules do not authenticate users.
Important
For JAAS login modules that reference properties files, the reload behavior is conditional and disabled by default. To enable the behavior, set the
reload property to true as shown in the example below:
Configuring users in the properties login module
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The properties login module is used to store username/password credentials in a flat file format. To create a new user in the properties login module, open the
InstallDir/etc/users.properties file using a text editor and add a line with the following syntax:
Username=Password[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
Username=Password[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
For example, to create the
jdoe user with password, topsecret, and role, Administrator, you could create an entry like the following:
jdoe=topsecret,Administrator
jdoe=topsecret,Administrator
Where the
Administrator role gives full administrative privileges to the jdoe user.
Configuring user groups in the properties login module
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Instead of (or in addition to) assigning roles directly to users, you also have the option of adding users to user groups in the properties login module. To create a user group in the properties login module, open the
InstallDir/etc/users.properties file using a text editor and add a line with the following syntax:
_g_\:GroupName=Role1,Role2,...
_g_\:GroupName=Role1,Role2,...
For example, to create the
admingroup user group with the roles, SuperUser and Administrator, you could create an entry like the following:
_g_\:admingroup=SuperUser,Administrator
_g_\:admingroup=SuperUser,Administrator
You could then add the
majorclanger user to the admingroup, by creating the following user entry:
majorclanger=secretpass,_g_:admingroup
majorclanger=secretpass,_g_:admingroupConfiguring the public key login module
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The public key login module is used to store SSH public key credentials in a flat file format. To create a new user in the public key login module, open the
InstallDir/etc/keys.properties file using a text editor and add a line with the following syntax:
Username=PublicKey[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
Username=PublicKey[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
For example, you can create the
jdoe user with the Administrator role by adding the following entry to the InstallDir/etc/keys.properties file (on a single line):
Important
Do not insert the entire contents of an
id_rsa.pub file here. Insert just the block of symbols which represents the public key itself.
Configuring user groups in the public key login module
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Instead of (or in addition to) assigning roles directly to users, you also have the option of adding users to user groups in the public key login module. To create a user group in the public key login module, open the
InstallDir/etc/keys.properties file using a text editor and add a line with the following syntax:
_g_\:GroupName=Role1,Role2,...
_g_\:GroupName=Role1,Role2,...
For example, to create the
admingroup user group with the roles, SuperUser and Administrator, you could create an entry like the following:
_g_\:admingroup=SuperUser,Administrator
_g_\:admingroup=SuperUser,Administrator
You could then add the
jdoe user to the admingroup, by creating the following user entry:
Encrypting the stored passwords
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By default, passwords are stored in the
InstallDir/etc/users.properties file in plaintext format. To protect the passwords in this file, you must set the file permissions of the users.properties file so that it can be read only by administrators. To provide additional protection, you can optionally encrypt the stored passwords using a message digest algorithm.
To enable the password encryption feature, edit the
InstallDir/etc/org.apache.karaf.jaas.cfg file and set the encryption properties as described in the comments. For example, the following settings would enable basic encryption using the MD5 message digest algorithm:
Note
The encryption settings in the
org.apache.karaf.jaas.cfg file are applied only to the default karaf realm in a standalone container. The have no effect on a Fabric container and no effect on a custom realm.
For more details about password encryption, see Section 2.1.8, “Encrypting Stored Passwords”.
Overriding the default realm
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If you want to customise the JAAS realm, the most convenient approach to take is to override the default
karaf realm by defining a higher ranking karaf realm. This ensures that all of the Red Hat JBoss Fuse security components switch to use your custom realm. For details of how to define and deploy custom JAAS realms, see Section 2.1.2, “Defining JAAS Realms”.
2.1.2. Defining JAAS Realms
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Overview
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When defining a JAAS realm in the OSGi container, you cannot put the definitions in a conventional JAAS login configuration file. Instead, the OSGi container uses a special
jaas:config element for defining JAAS realms in a blueprint configuration file. The JAAS realms defined in this way are made available to all of the application bundles deployed in the container, making it possible to share the JAAS security infrastructure across the whole container.
Namespace
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The
jaas:config element is defined in the http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/jaas/v1.0.0 namespace. When defining a JAAS realm you will need to include the line shown in Example 2.1, “JAAS Blueprint Namespace”.
Example 2.1. JAAS Blueprint Namespace
xmlns:jaas="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/jaas/v1.0.0"
xmlns:jaas="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/jaas/v1.0.0"Configuring a JAAS realm
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The syntax for the
jaas:config element is shown in Example 2.2, “Defining a JAAS Realm in Blueprint XML”.
Example 2.2. Defining a JAAS Realm in Blueprint XML
The elements are used as follows:
jaas:config- Defines the JAAS realm. It has the following attributes:
name—specifies the name of the JAAS realm.rank—specifies an optional rank for resolving naming conflicts between JAAS realms . When two or more JAAS realms are registered under the same name, the OSGi container always picks the realm instance with the highest rank. If you decide to override the default realm,karaf, you should specify arankof100or more, so that it overrides all of the previously installedkarafrealms (in the context of Fabric, you need to override the defaultZookeeperLoginModule, which has a rank of99).
jaas:module- Defines a JAAS login module in the current realm.
jaas:modulehas the following attributes:className—the fully-qualified class name of a JAAS login module. The specified class must be available from the bundle classloader.flags—determines what happens upon success or failure of the login operation. Table 2.1, “Flags for Defining a JAAS Module” describes the valid values.Expand Table 2.1. Flags for Defining a JAAS Module Value Description requiredAuthentication of this login module must succeed. Always proceed to the next login module in this entry, irrespective of success or failure. requisiteAuthentication of this login module must succeed. If success, proceed to the next login module; if failure, return immediately without processing the remaining login modules. sufficientAuthentication of this login module is not required to succeed. If success, return immediately without processing the remaining login modules; if failure, proceed to the next login module. optionalAuthentication of this login module is not required to succeed. Always proceed to the next login module in this entry, irrespective of success or failure.
The contents of ajaas:moduleelement is a space separated list of property settings, which are used to initialize the JAAS login module instance. The specific properties are determined by the JAAS login module and must be put into the proper format.NoteYou can define multiple login modules in a realm.
Converting standard JAAS login properties to XML
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Red Hat JBoss Fuse uses the same properties as a standard Java login configuration file, however Red Hat JBoss Fuse requires that they are specified slightly differently. To see how the Red Hat JBoss Fuse approach to defining JAAS realms compares with the standard Java login configuration file approach, consider how to convert the login configuration shown in Example 2.3, “Standard JAAS Properties”, which defines the
PropertiesLogin realm using the Red Hat JBoss Fuse properties login module class, PropertiesLoginModule:
Example 2.3. Standard JAAS Properties
PropertiesLogin {
org.apache.activemq.jaas.PropertiesLoginModule required
org.apache.activemq.jaas.properties.user="users.properties"
org.apache.activemq.jaas.properties.group="groups.properties";
};
PropertiesLogin {
org.apache.activemq.jaas.PropertiesLoginModule required
org.apache.activemq.jaas.properties.user="users.properties"
org.apache.activemq.jaas.properties.group="groups.properties";
};
The equivalent JAAS realm definition, using the
jaas:config element in a blueprint file, is shown in Example 2.4, “Blueprint JAAS Properties”.
Example 2.4. Blueprint JAAS Properties
Important
You do not use double quotes for JAAS properties in the blueprint configuration.
Example
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Red Hat JBoss Fuse also provides an adapter that enables you to store JAAS authentication data in an X.500 server. Example 2.5, “Configuring a JAAS Realm” defines the
LDAPLogin realm to use Red Hat JBoss Fuse's LDAPLoginModule class, which connects to the LDAP server located at ldap://localhost:10389.
Example 2.5. Configuring a JAAS Realm
For a detailed description and example of using the LDAP login module, see Section 2.1.7, “JAAS LDAP Login Module”.
2.1.3. JAAS Properties Login Module
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Overview
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The JAAS properties login module stores user data in a flat file format (where the stored passwords can optionally be encrypted using a message digest algorithm). The user data can either be edited directly, using a simple text editor, or managed using the
jaas:* console commands.
For example, a standalone container uses the JAAS properties login module by default and stores the associated user data in the
InstallDir/etc/users.properties file.
Supported credentials
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The JAAS properties login module authenticates username/password credentials, returning the list of roles associated with the authenticated user.
Implementation classes
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The following classes implement the JAAS properties login module:
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.properties.PropertiesLoginModule- Implements the JAAS login module.
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.properties.PropertiesBackingEngineFactory- Must be exposed as an OSGi service. This service makes it possible for you to manage the user data using the
jaas:*console commands from the Apache Karaf shell (see chapter "JAAS Console Commands" in "Console Reference").
Options
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The JAAS properties login module supports the following options:
users- Location of the user properties file.
Format of the user properties file
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The user properties file is used to store username, password, and role data for the properties login module. Each user is represented by a single line in the user properties file, where a line has the following form:
Username=Password[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
Username=Password[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
User groups can also be defined in this file, where each user group is represented by a single line in the following format:
_g_\:GroupName=Role1[,Role2]...
_g_\:GroupName=Role1[,Role2]...
For example, you can define the users,
bigcheese and guest, and the user groups, admingroup and guestgroup, as follows:
Sample Blueprint configuration
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The following Blueprint configuration shows how to define a new
karaf realm using the properties login module, where the default karaf realm is overridden by setting the rank attribute to 200:
Remember to export the
BackingEngineFactory bean as an OSGi service, so that the jaas:* console commands can manage the user data.
2.1.4. JAAS OSGi Config Login Module
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Overview
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The JAAS OSGi config login modules leverages the OSGi Config Admin Service to store user data. This login module is fairly similar to the JAAS properties login module (for example, the syntax of the user entries is the same), but the mechanism for retrieving user data is based on the OSGi Config Admin Service.
The user data can be edited directly by creating a corresponding OSGi configuration file,
etc/PersistentID.cfg or using any method of configuration that is supported by the OSGi Config Admin Service. The jaas:* console commands are not supported, however.
Supported credentials
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The JAAS OSGi config login module authenticates username/password credentials, returning the list of roles associated with the authenticated user.
Implementation classes
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The following classes implement the JAAS OSGi config login module:
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.osgi.OsgiConfigLoginModule- Implements the JAAS login module.
Note
There is no backing engine factory for the OSGi config login module, which means that this module cannot be managed using the
jaas:* console commands.
Options
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The JAAS OSGi config login module supports the following options:
pid- The persistent ID of the OSGi configuration containing the user data. In the OSGi Config Admin standard, a persistent ID references a set of related configuration properties.
Location of the configuration file
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The location of the configuration file follows the usual convention where the configuration for the persistent ID,
PersistentID, is stored in the following file:
InstallDir/etc/PersistentID.cfg
InstallDir/etc/PersistentID.cfgFormat of the configuration file
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The
PersistentID.cfg configuration file is used to store username, password, and role data for the OSGi config login module. Each user is represented by a single line in the configuration file, where a line has the following form:
Username=Password[,Role][,Role]...
Username=Password[,Role][,Role]...Note
User groups are not supported in the JAAS OSGi config login module.
Sample Blueprint configuration
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The following Blueprint configuration shows how to define a new
karaf realm using the OSGi config login module, where the default karaf realm is overridden by setting the rank attribute to 200:
In this example, the user data will be stored in the file,
InstallDir/etc/org.jboss.example.osgiconfigloginmodule.cfg, and it is not possible to edit the configuration using the jaas:* console commands.
2.1.5. JAAS Public Key Login Module
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The JAAS public key login module stores user data in a flat file format, which can be edited directly using a simple text editor. The
jaas:* console commands are not supported, however.
For example, a standalone container uses the JAAS public key login module by default and stores the associated user data in the
InstallDir/etc/keys.properties file.
Supported credentials
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The JAAS public key login module authenticates SSH key credentials. When a user tries to log in, the SSH protocol uses the stored public key to challenge the user. The user must possess the corresponding private key in order to answer the challenge. If login is successful, the login module returns the list of roles associated with the user.
Implementation classes
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The following classes implement the JAAS public key login module:
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.publickey.PublickeyLoginModule- Implements the JAAS login module.
Note
There is no backing engine factory for the public key login module, which means that this module cannot be managed using the
jaas:* console commands.
Options
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The JAAS public key login module supports the following options:
users- Location of the user properties file for the public key login module.
Format of the keys properties file
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The
keys.properties file is used to store username, public key, and role data for the public key login module. Each user is represented by a single line in the keys properties file, where a line has the following form:
Username=PublicKey[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
Username=PublicKey[,UserGroup|Role][,UserGroup|Role]...
Where the PublicKey is the public key part of an SSH key pair (typically found in a user's home directory in
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub in a UNIX system).
For example, to create the user
jdoe with the Administrator role, you would create an entry like the following:
Important
Do not insert the entire contents of the
id_rsa.pub file here. Insert just the block of symbols which represents the public key itself.
User groups can also be defined in this file, where each user group is represented by a single line in the following format:
_g_\:GroupName=Role1[,Role2]...
_g_\:GroupName=Role1[,Role2]...Sample Blueprint configuration
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The following Blueprint configuration shows how to define a new
karaf realm using the public key login module, where the default karaf realm is overridden by setting the rank attribute to 200:
In this example, the user data will be stored in the file,
InstallDir/etc/keys.properties, and it is not possible to edit the configuration using the jaas:* console commands.
2.1.6. JAAS JDBC Login Module
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Overview
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The JAAS JDBC login module enables you to store user data in a database back-end, using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to connect to the database. Hence, you can use any database that supports JDBC to store your user data. To manage the user data, you can use either the native database client tools or the
jaas:* console commands (where the backing engine uses configured SQL queries to perform the relevant database updates).
You can combine multiple login modules with each login module providing both the authentication and authorization components. For example, you can combine default
PropertiesLoginModule with JDBCLoginModule to ensure access to the system.
Note
User groups are not supported in the JAAS JDBC login module.
Supported credentials
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The JAAS JDBC Login Module authenticates username/password credentials, returning the list of roles associated with the authenticated user.
Implementation classes
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The following classes implement the JAAS JDBC Login Module:
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.jdbc.JDBCLoginModule- Implements the JAAS login module.
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.jdbc.JDBCBackingEngineFactory- Must be exposed as an OSGi service. This service makes it possible for you to manage the user data using the
jaas:*console commands from the Apache Karaf shell (see chapter "JAAS Console Commands" in "Console Reference").
Options
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The JAAS JDBC login module supports the following options:
- datasource
- The JDBC data source, specified either as an OSGi service or as a JNDI name. You can specify a data source's OSGi service using the following syntax:
osgi:ServiceInterfaceName[/ServicePropertiesFilter]
osgi:ServiceInterfaceName[/ServicePropertiesFilter]Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow The ServiceInterfaceName is the interface or class that is exported by the data source's OSGi service (usuallyjavax.sql.DataSource).Because multiple data sources can be exported as OSGi services in a container, it is usually necessary to specify a filter, ServicePropertiesFilter, to select the particular data source that you want. Filters on OSGi services are applied to the service property settings and follow a syntax that is borrowed from LDAP filter syntax. - query.password
- The SQL query that retrieves the user's password. The query can contain a single question mark character,
?, which is substituted by the username at run time. - query.role
- The SQL query that retrieves the user's roles. The query can contain a single question mark character,
?, which is substituted by the username at run time. - insert.user
- The SQL query that creates a new user entry. The query can contain two question marks,
?, characters: the first question mark is substituted by the username and the second question mark is substituted by the password at run time. - insert.role
- The SQL query that adds a role to a user entry. The query can contain two question marks,
?, characters: the first question mark is substituted by the username and the second question mark is substituted by the role at run time. - delete.user
- The SQL query that deletes a user entry. The query can contain a single question mark character,
?, which is substituted by the username at run time. - delete.role
- The SQL query that deletes a role from a user entry. The query can contain two question marks,
?, characters: the first question mark is substituted by the username and the second question mark is substituted by the role at run time. - delete.roles
- The SQL query that deletes multiple roles from a user entry. The query can contain a single question mark character,
?, which is substituted by the username at run time.
Example of setting up a JDBC login module
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To set up a JDBC login module, perform the following main steps:
Create the database tables
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Before you can set up the JDBC login module, you must set up a users table and a roles table in the backing database to store the user data. For example, the following SQL commands show how to create a suitable
users table and roles table:
The
users table stores username/password data and the roles table associates a username with one or more roles.
Create the data source
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To use a JDBC datasource with the JDBC login module, the correct approach to take is to create a data source instance and export the data source as an OSGi service. The JDBC login module can then access the data source by referencing the exported OSGi service. For example, you could create a MySQL data source instance and expose it as an OSGi service (of
javax.sql.DataSource type) using code like the following in a Blueprint file:
The preceding Blueprint configuration should be packaged and installed in the container as an OSGi bundle.
Specify the data source as an OSGi service
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After the data source has been instantiated and exported as an OSGi service, you are ready to configure the JDBC login module. In particular, the
datasource option of the JDBC login module can reference the data source's OSGi service using the following syntax:
osgi:javax.sql.DataSource/(osgi.jndi.service.name=jdbc/karafdb)
osgi:javax.sql.DataSource/(osgi.jndi.service.name=jdbc/karafdb)
Where
javax.sql.DataSource is the interface type of the exported OSGi service and the filter, (osgi.jndi.service.name=jdbc/karafdb), selects the particular javax.sql.DataSource instance whose osgi.jndi.service.name service property has the value, jdbc/karafdb.
For example, you can use the following Blueprint configuration to override the
karaf realm with a JDBC login module that references the sample MySQL data source:
Note
The SQL statements shown in the preceding configuration are in fact the default values of these options. Hence, if you create user and role tables consistent with these SQL statements, you could omit the options settings and rely on the defaults.
In addition to creating a JDBCLoginModule, the preceding Blueprint configuration also instantiates and exports a
JDBCBackingEngineFactory instance, which enables you to manage the user data using the jaas:* console commands.
2.1.7. JAAS LDAP Login Module
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Overview
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The JAAS LDAP login module enables you to store user data in an LDAP database. To manage the stored user data, use a standard LDAP client tool. The
jaas:* console commands are not supported.
For more details about using LDAP with Red Hat JBoss Fuse see Chapter 9, LDAP Authentication Tutorial.
Note
User groups are not supported in the JAAS LDAP login module.
Important
In a Fuse Fabric, the Zookeeper login module must always be enabled. Hence, if you want to enable the LDAP login module in a Fabric, both the Zookeeper login module and the LDAP login module must be enabled. See Section 9.4, “Enable LDAP Authentication in the OSGi Container” for details.
Supported credentials
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The JAAS LDAP Login Module authenticates username/password credentials, returning the list of roles associated with the authenticated user.
Implementation classes
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The following classes implement the JAAS LDAP Login Module:
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.ldap.LDAPLoginModule- Implements the JAAS login module. It is preloaded in the container, so you do not need to install its bundle.
Note
There is no backing engine factory for the LDAP Login Module, which means that this module cannot be managed using the
jaas:* console commands.
Options
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The JAAS LDAP login module supports the following options:
authentication- Specifies the authentication method used when binding to the LDAP server. Valid values are
simple—bind with user name and password authentication, requiring you to set theconnection.usernameandconnection.passwordproperties.none—bind anonymously. In this case theconnection.usernameandconnection.passwordproperties can be left unassigned.
NoteThe connection to the directory server is used only for performing searches. In this case, an anonymous bind is often preferred, because it is faster than an authenticated bind (but you would also need to ensure that the directory server is sufficiently protected, for example by deploying it behind a firewall). connection.url- Specifies specify the location of the directory server using an ldap URL, ldap://Host:Port. You can optionally qualify this URL, by adding a forward slash,
/, followed by the DN of a particular node in the directory tree. To enable SSL security on the connection, you need to specify theldaps:scheme in the URL—for example, ldaps://Host:Port. You can also specify multiple URLs, as a space-separated list, for example:connection.url=ldap://10.0.0.153:2389 ldap://10.10.178.20:389
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uid=admin,ou=system. connection.password- Specifies the password that matches the DN from connection.username. In the directory server, the password is normally stored as a
userPasswordattribute in the corresponding directory entry. context.com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.pool- If
true, enables connection pooling for LDAP connections. Default isfalse. context.com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.timeout- Specifies the timeout for creating a TCP connection to the LDAP server, in units of milliseconds. We recommend that you set this property explicitly, because the default value is infinite, which can result in a hung connection attempt.
context.com.sun.jndi.ldap.read.timeout- Specifies the read timeout for an LDAP operation, in units of milliseconds. We recommend that you set this property explicitly, because the default value is infinite.
context.java.naming.referral- An LDAP referral is a form of indirection supported by some LDAP servers. The LDAP referral is an entry in the LDAP server which contains one or more URLs (usually referencing a node or nodes in another LDAP server). The
context.java.naming.referralproperty can be used to enable or disable referral following. It can be set to one of the following values:followto follow the referrals (assuming it is supported by the LDAP server),ignoreto silently ignore all referrals,throwto throw aPartialResultExceptionwhenever a referral is encountered.
disableCache- The user and role caches can be disabled by setting this property to
true. Default isfalse. initial.context.factory- Specifies the class of the context factory used to connect to the LDAP server. This must always be set to
com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory. role.base.dn- Specifies the DN of the subtree of the DIT to search for role entries. For example,
ou=groups,ou=system. role.filter- Specifies the LDAP search filter used to locate roles. It is applied to the subtree selected by
role.base.dn. For example,(member=uid=%u). Before being passed to the LDAP search operation, the value is subjected to string substitution, as follows:%uis replaced by the user name extracted from the incoming credentials, and%dnis replaced by the RDN of the corresponding user in the LDAP server (which was found by matching against theuser.filterfilter).%fqdnis replaced by the DN of the corresponding user in the LDAP server (which was found by matching against theuser.filterfilter).
role.mapping- Specifies the mapping between LDAP groups and JAAS roles. If no mapping is specified, the default mapping is for each LDAP group to map to the corresponding JAAS role of the same name. The role mapping is specified with the following syntax:
ldap-group=jaas-role(,jaas-role)*(;ldap-group=jaas-role(,jaas-role)*)*
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cn. role.search.subtree- Specifies whether the role entry search scope includes the subtrees of the tree selected by
role.base.dn. Iftrue, the role lookup is recursive (SUBTREE). Iffalse, the role lookup is performed only at the first level (ONELEVEL). ssl- Specifies whether the connection to the LDAP server is secured using SSL. If connection.url starts with ldaps:// SSL is used regardless of this property.
ssl.provider- Specifies the SSL provider to use for the LDAP connection. If not specified, the default SSL provider is used.
ssl.protocol- Specifies the protocol to use for the SSL connection. You must set this property to
TLSv1, in order to prevent the SSLv3 protocol from being used (POODLE vulnerability). ssl.algorithm- Specifies the algorithm used by the trust store manager. For example,
PKIX. ssl.keystore- The ID of the keystore that stores the LDAP client's own X.509 certificate (required only if SSL client authentication is enabled on the LDAP server). The keystore must be deployed using a
jaas:keystoreelement (see the section called “Sample configuration for Apache DS”). ssl.keyalias- The keystore alias of the LDAP client's own X.509 certificate (required only if there is more than one certificate stored in the keystore specified by
ssl.keystore). ssl.truststore- The ID of the keystore that stores trusted CA certificates, which are used to verify the LDAP server's certificate (the LDAP server's certificate chain must be signed by one of the certificates in the truststore). The keystore must be deployed using a
jaas:keystoreelement. user.base.dn- Specifies the DN of the subtree of the DIT to search for user entries. For example,
ou=users,ou=system. user.filter- Specifies the LDAP search filter used to locate user credentials. It is applied to the subtree selected by
user.base.dn. For example,(uid=%u). Before being passed to the LDAP search operation, the value is subjected to string substitution, as follows:%uis replaced by the user name extracted from the incoming credentials.
user.search.subtree- Specifies whether the user entry search scope includes the subtrees of the tree selected by
user.base.dn. Iftrue, the user lookup is recursive (SUBTREE). Iffalse, the user lookup is performed only at the first level (ONELEVEL).
Sample configuration for Apache DS
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The following Blueprint configuration shows how to define a new
karaf realm using the LDAP login module, where the default karaf realm is overridden by setting the rank attribute to 200, and the LDAP login module connects to an Apache Directory Server:
Note
In order to enable SSL, you must remember to use the
ldaps scheme in the connection.url setting.
Important
You must set
ssl.protocol to TLSv1, in order to protect against the Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)
Filter settings for different directory servers
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The most significant differences between directory servers arise in connection with setting the filter options in the LDAP login module. The precise settings depend ultimately on the organisation of your DIT, but the following table gives an idea of the typical role filter settings required for different directory servers:
| Directory Server | Typical Filter Settings |
|---|---|
|
389-DS
Red Hat DS
|
user.filter=(&(objectClass=InetOrgPerson)(uid=%u)) role.filter=(uniquemember=%fqdn) |
|
MS Active Directory
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user.filter=(&(objectCategory=person)(samAccountName=%u)) role.filter=(uniquemember=%fqdn) |
|
Apache DS
|
user.filter=(uid=%u) role.filter=(member=uid=%u) |
|
OpenLDAP
|
user.filter=(uid=%u) role.filter=(member:=uid=%u) |
Note
In the preceding table, the
& symbol (representing the logical And operator) is escaped as & because the option settings will be embedded in a Blueprint XML file.
2.1.8. Encrypting Stored Passwords
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Overview
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By default, the JAAS login modules store passwords in plaintext format. Although you can (and should) protect such data by setting file permissions appropriately, you can provide additional protection to passwords by storing them in an obscured format (using a message digest algorithm).
Red Hat JBoss Fuse provides a set of options for enabling password encryption, which can be combined with any of the JAAS login modules (except the public key login module, where it is not needed).
Important
Although message digest algorithms are difficult to crack, they are not invulnerable to attack (for example, see the Wikipedia article on cryptographic hash functions). Always use file permissions to protect files containing passwords, in addition to using password encryption.
Options
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You can optionally enable password encryption for JAAS login modules by setting the following login module properties. To do so, either edit the InstallDir
/etc/org.apache.karaf.jaas.cfg file or deploy your own blueprint file as described in the section called “Example of a login module with Jasypt encryption”.
encryption.enabled- Set to
true, to enable password encryption. encryption.name- Name of the encryption service, which has been registered as an OSGi service.
encryption.prefix- Prefix for encrypted passwords.
encryption.suffix- Suffix for encrypted passwords.
encryption.algorithm- Specifies the name of the encryption algorithm—for example,
MD5orSHA-1. You can specify one of the following encryption algorithms:MD2MD5SHA-1SHA-256SHA-384SHA-512
encryption.encoding- Encrypted passwords encoding:
hexadecimalorbase64. encryption.providerName(Jasypt only)- Name of the
java.security.Providerinstance that is to provide the digest algorithm. encryption.providerClassName(Jasypt only)- Class name of the security provider that is to provide the digest algorithm
encryption.iterations(Jasypt only)- Number of times to apply the hash function recursively.
encryption.saltSizeBytes(Jasypt only)- Size of the salt used to compute the digest.
encryption.saltGeneratorClassName(Jasypt only)- Class name of the salt generator.
role.policy- Specifies the policy for identifying role principals. Can have the values,
prefixorgroup. role.discriminator- Specifies the discriminator value to be used by the role policy.
Encryption services
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There are two encryption services provided by JBoss Fuse:
You can also create your own encryption service. To do so, you need to:
Following listing shows, how jasypt encryption service is exposed to OSGI container.
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encryption.name = basic, described in the section called “Basic encryption service”,encryption.name = jasypt, described in the section called “Jasypt encryption”.
- implement interface
org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.EncryptionService - and expose your implementation as OSGI service.
Basic encryption service
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The basic encryption service is installed in the standalone container by default and you can reference it by setting the
encryption.name property to the value, basic. In the basic encryption service, the message digest algorithms are provided by the SUN security provider (the default security provider in the Oracle JDK).
Jasypt encryption
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By default, the Jasypt encryption service is installed on standalone JBoss Fuse, but not on standalone JBoss A-MQ. To install it on JBoss A-MQ, install the
jasypt-encryption feature, using the following console command:
JBossA-MQ:karaf@root> features:install jasypt-encryption
JBossA-MQ:karaf@root> features:install jasypt-encryption
This command installs the requisite Jasypt bundles and exports Jasypt encryption as an OSGi service, so that it is available for use by JAAS login modules. To access the Jasypt encryption service, set the
encryption.name property to the value, jasypt.
For more information about Jasypt encryption, see the Jasypt documentation.
Example of a login module with Jasypt encryption
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Assuming that you have already installed the
jasypt-encryption feature, you could deploy a properties login module with Jasypt encryption using the following Blueprint configuration:
2.2. Role-Based Access Control
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Abstract
This section describes the role-based access control (RBAC) feature, which is enabled by default in the JBoss Fuse container. You can immediately start taking advantage of the RBAC feature, simply by adding one of the standard roles (such as
Deployer or Administrator) to a user's credentials. For more advanced usage, you have the option of customizing the access control lists, in order to control exactly what each role can do. Finally, you have the option of applying custom ACLs to your own OSGi services.
2.2.1. Overview of Role-Based Access Control
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Overview
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By default, the JBoss Fuse role-based access control protects access through the Fuse Management Console, JMX connections, and the Karaf command console. To use the default levels of access control, simply add any of the standard roles to your user authentication data (for example, by editing the
etc/users.properties file). You also have the option of customizing access control, by editing the relevant Access Control List (ACL) files.
Mechanisms
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Role-based access control in JBoss Fuse is based on the following mechanisms:
- JMX Guard
- The JBoss Fuse container is configured with a JMX guard, which intercepts every incoming JMX invocation and filters the invocation through the configured JMX access control lists. The JMX guard is configured at the JVM level, so it intercepts every JMX invocation, without exception.
- OSGi Service Guard
- For any OSGi service, it is possible to configure an OSGi service guard. The OSGi service guard is implemented as a proxy object, which interposes itself between the client and the original OSGi service. An OSGi service guard must be explicitly configured for each OSGi service: it is not installed by default (except for the OSGi services that represent Karaf console commands, which are preconfigured for you).
Note
If you change the configuration of RBAC, the changes propagation to Hawtio may take up to 10 minutes due to cache update.
Types of protection
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The JBoss Fuse implementation of role-based access control is capable of providing the following types of protection:
- Fuse Management Console (Hawtio)
- Container access through the Fuse Management Console (Hawtio) is controlled by the JMX ACL files. The REST/HTTP service that provides the Fuse Management Console is implemented using Jolokia technology, which is layered above JMX. Hence, ultimately, all Fuse Management Console invocations pass through JMX and are regulated by JMX ACLs.
- JMX
- Direct access to the container's JMX port is regulated by the JMX ACLs. Moreover, any additional JMX ports opened by an application running in the container would also be regulated by the JMX ACLs, because the JMX guard is set at the JVM level.
- Karaf command console
- Access to the Karaf command console is regulated by the command console ACL files. Access control is applied no matter how the Karaf console is accessed. Whether accessing the command console through the Fuse Management Console or through the SSH protocol, access control is applied in both cases.NoteIn the special case where you start up the container directly at the command line (for example, using the
./bin/fusescript) and no user authentication is performed, you automatically get the roles specified by thekaraf.local.rolesproperty in theetc/system.propertiesfile. - OSGi services
- For any OSGi service deployed in the container, you can optionally enable an ACL file, which restricts method invocations to specific roles.
Adding roles to users
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In the system of role-based access control, you can give users permissions by adding roles to their user authentication data. For example, the following entry in the
etc/users.properties file defines the admin user and grants the Administrator and SuperUser roles.
admin = secretpass,Administrator,SuperUser
admin = secretpass,Administrator,SuperUser
You also have the option of defining user groups and then assigning users to a particular user group. For example, you could define and use an
admingroup user group as follows:
admin = secretpass, _g_:admingroup _g_\:admingroup = Administrator, SuperUser
admin = secretpass, _g_:admingroup
_g_\:admingroup = Administrator, SuperUserNote
User groups are not supported by every type of JAAS login module.
Standard roles
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Table 2.2, “Standard Roles for Access Control” lists and describes the standard roles that are used throughout the JMX ACLs and the command console ACLs.
| Roles | Description |
|---|---|
Monitor, Operator, Maintainer | Grants read-only access to the container. |
Deployer, Auditor | Grants read-write access at the appropriate level for ordinary users, who want to deploy and run applications. But blocks access to sensitive container configuration settings. |
Administrator, SuperUser | Grants unrestricted access to the container. |
ACL files
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The standard set of ACL files are located under the
etc/auth/ directory of the JBoss Fuse installation, as follows:
etc/auth/jmx.acl[.*].cfg- JMX ACL files.
etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.command.acl.*.cfg- Command console ACL files.
Customizing role-based access control
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A complete set of JMX ACL files and command console ACL files are provided by default. You are free to customize these ACLs as required to suit the requirements of your system.
You can create custom roles by editing the ACL files that are located under the
etc/auth/ directory of the JBoss Fuse installation. For more information see Customizing the JMX ACLs and Customizing the Command Console ACLs
Customizing ACLs in a fabric environment
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In a standalone enviroment, you can assign the custom roles by editing the ACL files. This process does not work in a fabric enviroment as the ACL files in
/etc/auth are over-written by the content stored in profiles. Hence, to assign custom roles in a fabric environment, you can add ACL assignments to the acl profile or jboss-fuse-full profile. For example,
fabric:profile-edit --pid org.apache.karaf.command.acl.fabric/container-start="Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser, admin, MyCustomRoleForStartingContainer" acls
fabric:profile-edit --pid org.apache.karaf.command.acl.fabric/container-start="Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser, admin, MyCustomRoleForStartingContainer" acls
Additional properties for controlling access
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The
system.properties file under the etc directory provides the following additional properties for controlling access through the Karaf command console and the Fuse Management Console (Hawtio):
karaf.local.roles- Specifies the roles that apply when a user starts up the container console locally (for example, by running the
./bin/fusescript). hawtio.roles- Specifies the roles that are allowed to access the container through the Fuse Management Console. This constraint is applied in addition to the access control defined by the JMX ACL files.
karaf.secured.command.compulsory.roles- Specifies the default roles required to invoke a Karaf console command, in case the console command is not configured explicitly by a command ACL file,
etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.command.acl.*.cfg. A user must be configured with at least one of the roles from the list in order to invoke the command. The value is specified as a comma-separated list of roles.
2.2.2. Customizing the JMX ACLs
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Overview
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The JMX ACLs are stored in the OSGi Config Admin Service and are normally accessible as the files,
etc/auth/jmx.acl.*.cfg. This section explains how you can customize the JMX ACLs by editing these files yourself.
Architecture
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Figure 2.1, “Access Control Mechanism for JMX” shows an overview of the role-based access control mechanism for JMX connections to the JBoss Fuse container.
Figure 2.1. Access Control Mechanism for JMX
How it works
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JMX access control works by inserting a JMX Guard, which is configured through a JVM-wide
MBeanServerBuilder object. The Apache Karaf launching scripts have been modified to include the following setting:
-Djavax.management.builder.initial=org.apache.karaf.management.boot.KarafMBeanServerBuilder
-Djavax.management.builder.initial=org.apache.karaf.management.boot.KarafMBeanServerBuilder
JMX access control is now applied as follows:
- For every non-local JMX invocation, the JVM-wide
MBeanServerBuildercalls into an OSGi bundle that contains the JMX Guard. - The JMX Guard looks up the relevant ACL for the MBean the user is trying to access (where the ACLs are stored in the OSGi Config Admin service).
- The ACL returns the list of roles that are allowed to make this particular invocation on the MBean.
- The JMX Guard checks the list of roles against the current security subject (the user that is making the JMX invocation), to see whether the current user has any of the required roles.
- If no matching role is found, the JMX invocation is blocked and a
java.lang.SecurityExceptionis raised.
Location of JMX ACL files
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The JMX ACL files are located in the
InstallDir/etc/auth directory, where the ACL file names obey the following convention:
etc/auth/jmx.acl[.*].cfg
etc/auth/jmx.acl[.*].cfg
Technically, the ACLs are mapped to OSGi persistent IDs (PIDs), matching the pattern,
jmx.acl[.*]. It just so happens that the standalone container stores OSGi PIDs as files, PID.cfg, under the etc/ directory by default.
Mapping MBeans to ACL file names
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The JMX Guard applies access control to every MBean class that is accessed through JMX (including any MBeans you define in your own application code). The ACL file for a specific MBean class is derived from the MBean's Object Name, by prefixing it with
jmx.acl. For example, given the MBean whose Object Name is given by org.apache.activemq:type=Broker, the corresponding PID would be:
jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq.Broker
jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq.Broker
In the case of a standalone container, the OSGi Config Admin service stores this PID data in the following file:
etc/auth/jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq.Broker.cfg
etc/auth/jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq.Broker.cfgACL file format
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Each line of a JMX ACL file is an entry in the following format:
Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...
Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...
Where
Pattern is a pattern that matches a method invocation on an MBean, and the right-hand side of the equals sign is a comma-separated list of roles that give a user permission to make that invocation. In the simplest cases, the Pattern is simply a method name. For example, as in the following settings for the org.apache.activemq.Broker MBean (from the jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq.Broker.cfg file):
addConnector = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser removeConnector = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser enableStatistics = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser addNetworkConnector = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
addConnector = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
removeConnector = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
enableStatistics = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
addNetworkConnector = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
It is also possible to use the wildcard character,
*, to match multiple method names. For example, the following entry gives permission to invoke all method names starting with set:
set* = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
set* = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
But the ACL syntax is also capable of defining much more fine-grained control of method invocations. You can define patterns to match methods invoked with specific arguments or even arguments that match a regular expression. For example, the ACL for the
org.apache.karaf.config MBean package exploits this capability to prevent ordinary users from modifying sensitive configuration settings. The create method from this package is restricted, as follows:
create(java.lang.String)[/jmx[.]acl.*/] = Administrator, SuperUser create(java.lang.String)[/org[.]apache[.]karaf[.]command[.]acl.+/] = Administrator, SuperUser create(java.lang.String)[/org[.]apache[.]karaf[.]service[.]acl.+/] = Administrator, SuperUser create(java.lang.String) = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
create(java.lang.String)[/jmx[.]acl.*/] = Administrator, SuperUser
create(java.lang.String)[/org[.]apache[.]karaf[.]command[.]acl.+/] = Administrator, SuperUser
create(java.lang.String)[/org[.]apache[.]karaf[.]service[.]acl.+/] = Administrator, SuperUser
create(java.lang.String) = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
In this case, the
Deployer and Auditor roles generally have permission to invoke the create method, but only the Administrator and SuperUser roles have permission to invoke create with a PID argument matching jmx.acl.*, org.apache.karaf.command.acl.*, or org.apache.karaf.service.*.
For complete details of the ACL file format, please see the comments in the
etc/auth/jmx.acl.cfg file.
ACL file hierarchy
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Because it is often impractical to provide an ACL file for every single MBean, you have the option of specifying an ACL file at the level of a Java package, which provides default settings for all of the MBeans in that package. For example, the
org.apache.activemq.Broker MBean could be affected by ACL settings at any of the following PID levels:
jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq.Broker jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq jmx.acl.org.apache jmx.acl.org jmx.acl
jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq.Broker
jmx.acl.org.apache.activemq
jmx.acl.org.apache
jmx.acl.org
jmx.acl
Where the most specific PID (top of the list) takes precedence over the least specific PID (bottom of the list).
Root ACL definitions
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The root ACL file,
jmx.acl.cfg, is a special case, because it supplies the default ACL settings for all MBeans. The root ACL has the following settings by default:
list* = viewer, Monitor, Operator, Maintainer,Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser get* = viewer, Monitor, Operator, Maintainer,Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser is* = viewer, Monitor, Operator, Maintainer,Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser set* = admin, Administrator, SuperUser * = admin, Administrator, SuperUser
list* = viewer, Monitor, Operator, Maintainer,Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
get* = viewer, Monitor, Operator, Maintainer,Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
is* = viewer, Monitor, Operator, Maintainer,Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
set* = admin, Administrator, SuperUser
* = admin, Administrator, SuperUser
This implies that the typical read method patterns (
list*, get*, is*) are accessible to all standard roles, but the typical write method patterns and other methods (set* and *) are accessible only to the administrator roles, admin, Administrator, SuperUser.
Package ACL definitions
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Many of the standard JMX ACL files provided in
etc/auth/jmx.acl[.*].cfg apply to MBean packages. For example, the ACL for the org.apache.camel.endpoints MBean package is defined with the following permissions:
is* = Monitor, Operator, Maintainer, Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser get* = Monitor, Operator, Maintainer, Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser set* = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
is* = Monitor, Operator, Maintainer, Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
get* = Monitor, Operator, Maintainer, Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
set* = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUserACL for custom MBeans
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If you define custom MBeans in your own application, these custom MBeans are automatically integrated with the ACL mechanism and protected by the JMX Guard when you deploy them into the container. By default, however, your MBeans are typically protected only by the default root ACL file,
jmx.acl.cfg. If you want to define a more fine-grained ACL for your MBean, create a new ACL file under etc/auth, using the standard JMX ACL file naming convention.
For example, if your custom MBean class has the JMX Object Name,
org.example:type=MyMBean, create a new ACL file under the etc/auth directory called:
jmx.acl.org.example.MyMBean.cfg
jmx.acl.org.example.MyMBean.cfgDynamic configuration at run time
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Because the OSGi Config Admin service is dynamic, you can change ACL settings while the system is running, and even while a particular user is logged on. Hence, if you discover a security breach while the system is running, you can immediately restrict access to certain parts of the system by editing the relevant ACL file, without having to restart the container.
2.2.3. Customizing the Command Console ACLs
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Overview
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The command console ACLs are stored in the OSGi Config Admin Service and are normally accessible as the files,
etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.command.acl.*.cfg. This section explains how you can customize the command console ACLs by editing these files yourself.
Architecture
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Figure 2.2, “Access Control Mechanism for OSGi Services” shows an overview of the role-based access control mechanism for OSGi services in the JBoss Fuse container.
Figure 2.2. Access Control Mechanism for OSGi Services
How it works
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The mechanism for command console access control is, in fact, based on the generic access control mechanism for OSGi services. It so happens that console commands are implemented and exposed as OSGi services. The Karaf console itself discovers the available commands through the OSGi service registry and accesses the commands as OSGi services. Hence, the access control mechanism for OSGi services can be used to control access to console commands.
The mechanism for securing OSGi services is based on OSGi Service Registry Hooks. This is an advanced OSGi feature that makes it possible to hide OSGi services from certain consumers and to replace an OSGi service with a proxy service.
When a service guard is in place for a particular OSGi service, a client invocation on the OSGi service proceeds as follows:
- The invocation does not go directly to the requested OSGi service. Instead, the request is routed to a replacement proxy service, which has the same service properties as the original service (and some extra ones).
- The service guard looks up the relevant ACL for the target OSGi service (where the ACLs are stored in the OSGi Config Admin service).
- The ACL returns the list of roles that are allowed to make this particular method invocation on the service.
- If no ACL is found for this command, the service guard defaults to the list of roles specified in the
karaf.secured.command.compulsory.rolesproperty in theetc/system.propertiesfile. - The service guard checks the list of roles against the current security subject (the user that is making the method invocation), to see whether the current user has any of the required roles.
- If no matching role is found, the method invocation is blocked and a
java.lang.SecurityExceptionis raised. - Alternatively, if a matching role is found, the method invocation is delegated to the original OSGi service.
Configuring default security roles
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For any commands that do not have a corresponding ACL file, you specify a default list of security roles by setting the
karaf.secured.command.compulsory.roles property in the etc/system.properties file (specified as a comma-separated list of roles).
Location of command console ACL files
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The command console ACL files are located in the
InstallDir/etc/auth directory, with the prefix, org.apache.karaf.command.acl.
Mapping command scopes to ACL file names
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The command console ACL file names obey the following convention:
etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.command.acl.CommandScope.cfg
etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.command.acl.CommandScope.cfg
Where the
CommandScope corresponds to the prefix for a particular group of Karaf console commands. For example, the features:install and features:uninstall commands belong to the features command scope, which has the corresponding ACL file, org.apache.karaf.command.acl.features.cfg.
ACL file format
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Each line of a command console ACL file is an entry in the following format:
Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...
Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...
Where
Pattern is a pattern that matches a Karaf console command from the current command scope, and the right-hand side of the equals sign is a comma-separated list of roles that give a user permission to make that invocation. In the simplest cases, the Pattern is simply an unscoped command name. For example, the org.apache.karaf.command.acl.features.cfg ACL file includes the following rules for the features commands:
Important
If no match is found for a specific command name, it is assumed that no role is required for this command and it can be invoked by any user.
You can also define patterns to match commands invoked with specific arguments or even arguments that match a regular expression. For example, the
org.apache.karaf.command.acl.osgi.cfg ACL file exploits this capability to prevent ordinary users from invoking the osgi:start and osgi:stop commands with the -f (force) flag (which must be specified to manage system bundles). This restriction is coded as follows in the ACL file:
start[/.*[-][f].*/] = Administrator, SuperUser start = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser stop[/.*[-][f].*/] = Administrator, SuperUser stop = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
start[/.*[-][f].*/] = Administrator, SuperUser
start = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
stop[/.*[-][f].*/] = Administrator, SuperUser
stop = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
In this case, the
Deployer and Auditor roles generally have permission to invoke the osgi:start and osgi:stop commands, but only the Administrator and SuperUser roles have permission to invoke these commands with the force option, -f.
For complete details of the ACL file format, please see the comments in the
etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.command.acl.osgi.cfg file.
Dynamic configuration at run time
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The command console ACL settings are fully dynamic, which means you can change the ACL settings while the system is running and the changes will take effect within a few seconds, even for users that are already logged on.
2.2.4. Defining ACLs for OSGi Services
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Overview
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It is possible to define a custom ACL for any OSGi service (whether system level or application level). By default, OSGi services do not have access control enabled (with the exception of the OSGi services that expose Karaf console commands, which are pre-configured with command console ACL files). This section explains how to define a custom ACL for an OSGi service and how to invoke methods on that service using a specified role.
ACL file format
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An OSGi service ACL file has one special entry, which identifies the OSGi service to which this ACL applies, as follows:
service.guard = (objectClass=InterfaceName)
service.guard = (objectClass=InterfaceName)
Where the value of
service.guard is an LDAP search filter that is applied to the registry of OSGi service properties in order to pick out the matching OSGi service. The simplest type of filter, (objectClass=InterfaceName), picks out an OSGi service with the specified Java interface name, InterfaceName.
The remaining entries in the ACL file are of the following form:
Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...
Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...
Where
Pattern is a pattern that matches a service method, and the right-hand side of the equals sign is a comma-separated list of roles that give a user permission to make that invocation. The syntax of these entries is essentially the same as the entries in a JMX ACL file—see the section called “ACL file format”.
How to define an ACL for a custom OSGi service
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To define an ACL for a custom OSGi service, perform the following steps:
- It is customary to define an OSGi service using a Java interface (you could use a regular Java class, but this is not recommended). For example, consider the Java interface,
MyService, which we intend to expose as an OSGi service:package org.example; public interface MyService { void doit(String s); }package org.example; public interface MyService { void doit(String s); }Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - To expose the Java interface as an OSGi service, you would typically add a
serviceelement to an OSGi Blueprint XML file (where the Blueprint XML file is typically stored under thesrc/main/resources/OSGI-INF/blueprintdirectory in a Maven project). For example, assuming thatMyServiceImplis the class that implements theMyServiceinterface, you could expose theMyServiceOSGi service as follows:Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - To define an ACL for the the OSGi service, you must create an OSGi Config Admin PID with the prefix,
org.apache.karaf.service.acl.For example, in the case of a standalone container (where the OSGi Config Admin PIDs are stored as.cfgfiles under theetc/auth/directory), you can create the following ACL file for theMyServiceOSGi service:etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.service.acl.myservice.cfg
etc/auth/org.apache.karaf.service.acl.myservice.cfgCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow NoteIt does not matter exactly how you name this file, as long as it starts with the required prefix,org.apache.karaf.service.acl. The corresponding OSGi service for this ACL file is actually specified by a property setting in this file (as you will see in the next step). - Specify the contents of the ACL file in a format like the following:
service.guard = (objectClass=InterfaceName) Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...
service.guard = (objectClass=InterfaceName) Pattern = Role1[,Role2][,Role3]...Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Theservice.guardsetting specifies theInterfaceNameof the OSGi service (using the syntax of an LDAP search filter, which is applied to the OSGi service properties). The other entries in the ACL file consist of a methodPattern, which associates a matching method to the specified roles. For example, you could define a simple ACL for theMyServiceOSGi service with the following settings in theorg.apache.karaf.service.acl.myservice.cfgfile:service.guard = (objectClass=org.example.MyService) doit = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUser
service.guard = (objectClass=org.example.MyService) doit = Deployer, Auditor, Administrator, SuperUserCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Finally, in order to enable the ACL for this OSGi service, you must edit the
karaf.secured.servicesproperty in theetc/system.propertiesfile. The value of thekaraf.secured.servicesproperty has the syntax of an LDAP search filter (which gets applied to the OSGi service properties). In general, to enable ACLs for an OSGi service,ServiceInterface, you must modify this property as follows:karaf.secured.services=(|(objectClass=ServiceInterface)(...ExistingPropValue...))
karaf.secured.services=(|(objectClass=ServiceInterface)(...ExistingPropValue...))Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow For example, to enable theMyServiceOSGi service:karaf.secured.services=(|(objectClass=org.example.MyService)(&(osgi.command.scope=*)(osgi.command.function=*)))
karaf.secured.services=(|(objectClass=org.example.MyService)(&(osgi.command.scope=*)(osgi.command.function=*)))Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow ImportantThe initial value of thekaraf.secured.servicesproperty has the settings to enable the command console ACLs. If you delete or corrupt these entries, the command console ACLs might stop working.
How to invoke an OSGi service secured with RBAC
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If you are writing Java code to invoke methods an a custom OSGi service (that is, implementing a client of the OSGi service), you must use the Java security API to specify the role you are using to invoke the service. For example, to invoke the
MyService OSGi service using the Deployer role, you could use code like the following:
Note
This example uses the Karaf role type,
org.apache.karaf.jaas.boot.principal.RolePrincipal. If necessary, you could use your own custom role class instead, but in that case you would have to specify your roles using the syntax className:roleName in the OSGi service's ACL file.
How to discover the roles required by an OSGi service
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When you are writing code against an OSGi service secured by an ACL, it can sometimes be useful to check what roles are allowed to invoke the service. For this purpose, the proxy service exports an additional OSGi property,
org.apache.karaf.service.guard.roles. The value of this property is a java.util.Collection object, which contains a list of all the roles that could possibly invoke a method on that service.
2.3. Using Encrypted Property Placeholders
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Overview
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When securing a container it is undesirable to use plain text passwords in configuration files. They create easy to target security holes. One way to avoid this problem is to use encrypted property placeholders when ever possible. This feature is supported both in Blueprint XML files and in Spring XML files.
How to use encrypted property placeholders
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To use encrypted property placeholders in a Blueprint XML file or in a Spring XML file, perform the following steps:
- Download and install Jasypt, to gain access to the Jasypt
listAlgorithms.sh,encrypt.shanddecrypt.shcommand-line tools.NoteWhen installing the Jasypt command-line tools, don't forget to enable execute permissions on the script files, by runningchmod u+x ScriptName.sh. - Choose a master password and an encryption algorithm. To discover which algorithms are supported in your current Java environment, run the
listAlgorithms.shJasypt command-line tool, as follows:./listAlgorithms.sh DIGEST ALGORITHMS: [MD2, MD5, SHA, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512] PBE ALGORITHMS: [PBEWITHMD5ANDDES, PBEWITHMD5ANDTRIPLEDES, PBEWITHSHA1ANDDESEDE, PBEWITHSHA1ANDRC2_40]
./listAlgorithms.sh DIGEST ALGORITHMS: [MD2, MD5, SHA, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512] PBE ALGORITHMS: [PBEWITHMD5ANDDES, PBEWITHMD5ANDTRIPLEDES, PBEWITHSHA1ANDDESEDE, PBEWITHSHA1ANDRC2_40]Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow On Windows platforms, the script islistAlgorithms.bat. JBoss Fuse usesPBEWithMD5AndDESby default. - Use the Jasypt encrypt command-line tool to encrypt your sensitive configuration values (for example, passwords for use in configuration files). For example, the following command encrypts the
PlaintextValvalue, using the specified algorithm and master passwordMasterPass:./encrypt.sh input="PlaintextVal" algorithm=PBEWithMD5AndDES password=MasterPass
./encrypt.sh input="PlaintextVal" algorithm=PBEWithMD5AndDES password=MasterPassCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create a properties file with encrypted values. For example, suppose you wanted to store some LDAP credentials. You could create a file,
etc/ldap.properties, with the following contents:Example 2.6. Property File with an Encrypted Property
#ldap.properties ldap.password=ENC(amIsvdqno9iSwnd7kAlLYQ==) ldap.url=ldap://192.168.1.74:10389
#ldap.properties ldap.password=ENC(amIsvdqno9iSwnd7kAlLYQ==) ldap.url=ldap://192.168.1.74:10389Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow The encrypted property values (as generated in the previous step) are identified by wrapping in theENC()function. - (Blueprint XML only) Add the requisite namespaces to your Blueprint XML file:
- Aries extensions—
http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-ext/v1.0.0 - Apache Karaf Jasypt—
http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/jasypt/v1.0.0
Example 2.7, “Encrypted Property Namespaces” shows a Blueprint file with the requisite namespaces.Example 2.7. Encrypted Property Namespaces
<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0" xmlns:ext="http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-ext/v1.0.0" xmlns:enc="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/jasypt/v1.0.0"> ... </blueprint>
<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0" xmlns:ext="http://aries.apache.org/blueprint/xmlns/blueprint-ext/v1.0.0" xmlns:enc="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/jasypt/v1.0.0"> ... </blueprint>Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Configure the location of the properties file for the property placeholder and configure the Jasypt encryption algorithm .
- Blueprint XMLExample 2.8, “Jasypt Blueprint Configuration” shows how to configure the
ext:property-placeholderelement to read properties from theetc/ldap.propertiesfile. Theenc:property-placeholderelement configures Jasypt to use thePBEWithMD5AndDESencryption algorithm and to read the master password from theJASYPT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORDenvironment variable.Example 2.8. Jasypt Blueprint Configuration
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Spring XMLExample 2.9, “Jasypt Spring Configuration” shows how to configure Jasypt to use the
PBEWithMD5AndDESencryption algorithm and to read the master password from theJASYPT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORDenvironment variable.TheEncryptablePropertyPlaceholderConfigurerbean is configured to read properties from theetc/ldap.propertiesfile and to read properties from theio.fabric8.mq.fabric.ConfigurationPropertiesclass (which defines thekaraf.baseproperty, for example).Example 2.9. Jasypt Spring Configuration
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- Use the placeholders in your configuration file. The placeholders you use for encrypted properties are the same as you use for regular properties. Use the syntax
${prop.name}. - Make sure that the
jasypt-encryptionfeature is installed in the container. If necessary, install thejasypt-encryptionfeature with the following console command:JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install jasypt-encryption
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install jasypt-encryptionCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Shut down the container, by entering the following command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> shutdown
JBossFuse:karaf@root> shutdownCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Carefully restart the container and deploy your secure application, as follows:
- Open a command window (first command window) and enter the following commands to start the JBoss Fuse container in the background:
export JASYPT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD="your super secret master pass phrase" ./bin/start
export JASYPT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD="your super secret master pass phrase" ./bin/startCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Open a second command window and start the client utility, to connect to the container running in the background:
./bin/client -u Username -p Password
./bin/client -u Username -p PasswordCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow WhereUsernameandPasswordare valid JAAS user credentials for logging on to the container console. - In the second command window, use the console to install your secure application that uses encrypted property placeholders. Check that the application has launched successfully (for example, using the
osgi:listcommand to check its status). - After the secure application has started up, go back to the first command window and unset the
JASYPT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORDenvironment variable.ImportantUnsetting theJASYPT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORDenvironment variable ensures there will be minimum risk of exposing the master password. The Jasypt library retains the master password in encrypted form in memory.
Blueprint XML example
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Example 2.10, “Jasypt Example in Blueprint XML” shows an example of an LDAP JAAS realm configured in Blueprint XML, using Jasypt encrypted property placeholders.
Example 2.10. Jasypt Example in Blueprint XML
The
${ldap.password} placeholder is replaced with the decrypted value of the ldap.password property from the etc/ldap.properties properties file.
2.4. Enabling Remote JMX SSL
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Overview
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Red Hat JBoss Fuse provides a JMX port that allows remote monitoring and management of Fuse containers using MBeans. By default, however, the credentials that you send over the JMX connection are unencrypted and vulnerable to snooping. To encrypt the JMX connection and protect against password snooping, you need to secure JMX communications by configuring JMX over SSL.
To configure JMX over SSL, perform the following steps:
After you have configured JMX over SSL access, you should test the connection.
Warning
If you are planning to enable SSL/TLS security, you must ensure that you explicitly disable the SSLv3 protocol, in order to safeguard against the Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566). For more details, see Disabling SSLv3 in JBoss Fuse 6.x and JBoss A-MQ 6.x.
Note
If you configure JMX over SSL while Red Hat JBoss Fuse is running, you will need to restart it.
Prerequisites
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If you haven't already done so, you need to:
- Set your
JAVA_HOMEenvironment variable - Configure a JBoss Fuse user with the
AdministratorroleEdit the<installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/users.propertiesfile and add the following entry, on a single line:admin=YourPassword,Administrator
admin=YourPassword,AdministratorCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow This creates a new user with username,admin, password,YourPassword, and theAdministratorrole.
Create the jbossweb.keystore file
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Open a command prompt and make sure you are in the
etc/ directory of your JBoss Fuse installation:
cd <installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc
cd <installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc
At the command line, using a
-dname value (Distinguished Name) appropriate for your application, type this command:
$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -v -alias jbossalias -keyalg RSA -keysize 1024 -keystore jbossweb.keystore -validity 3650 -keypass JbossPassword -storepass JbossPassword -dname "CN=127.0.0.1, OU=RedHat Software Unit, O=RedHat, L=Boston, S=Mass, C=USA"
$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -v -alias jbossalias -keyalg RSA -keysize 1024 -keystore jbossweb.keystore -validity 3650 -keypass JbossPassword -storepass JbossPassword -dname "CN=127.0.0.1, OU=RedHat Software Unit, O=RedHat, L=Boston, S=Mass, C=USA"Important
Type the entire command on a single command line.
The command returns output that looks like this:
Check whether
<installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc now contains the file jbossweb.keystore.
Create and deploy the keystore.xml file
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- Using your favorite xml editor, create and save the
keystore.xmlfile in the<installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etcdirectory. - Include this text in the file:
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Deploy the
keystore.xmlfile to the container, by copying it into the<installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/deploydirectory (the hot deploy directory).NoteSubsequently, if you need to undeploy thekeystore.xmlfile, you can do so by deleting thekeystore.xmlfile from thedeploy/directory while the Karaf container is running.
Add the required properties to org.apache.karaf.management.cfg
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Edit the
<installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/org.apache.karaf.management.cfg file to include these properties at the end of the file:
secured = true secureProtocol = TLSv1 keyAlias = jbossalias keyStore = sample_keystore trustStore = sample_keystore
secured = true
secureProtocol = TLSv1
keyAlias = jbossalias
keyStore = sample_keystore
trustStore = sample_keystoreImportant
You must set
secureProtocol to TLSv1, in order to protect against the Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)
Restart the JBoss Fuse container
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You must restart the JBoss Fuse container for the new JMX SSL/TLS settings to take effect.
Testing the Secure JMX connection
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- Open a command prompt and make sure you are in the
etc/directory of your JBoss Fuse installation:cd <installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc
cd <installDir>/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etcCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Open a terminal, and start up JConsole by entering this command:
jconsole -J-Djavax.net.debug=ssl -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=jbossweb.keystore -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=JKS -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=JbossPassword
jconsole -J-Djavax.net.debug=ssl -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=jbossweb.keystore -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=JKS -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=JbossPasswordCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Where the-J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreoption specifies the location of thejbossweb.keystorefile (make sure this location is specified correctly, or the SSL/TLS handshake will fail). The-J-Djavax.net.debug=sslsetting enables logging of SSL/TLS handshake messages, so you can verify that SSL/TLS has been successfully enabled.ImportantType the entire command on the same command line. - When JConsole opens, select the option Remote Process in the New Connection wizard.
- Under the Remote Process option, enter the following value for the
service:jmx:<protocol>:<sap>connection URL:service:jmx:rmi://localhost:44444/jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/karaf-root
service:jmx:rmi://localhost:44444/jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/karaf-rootCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow And fill in the Username, and Password fields with valid JAAS credentials (as set in theetc/users.propertiesfile):Username: admin Password: YourPassword
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Chapter 3. Securing the Jetty HTTP Server
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Abstract
You can configure the built-in Jetty HTTP server to use SSL/TLS security by adding the relevant configuration properties to the
etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfg configuration file. In particular, you can add SSL/TLS security to the Fuse Management Console in this way.
Jetty server
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The JBoss Fuse container is pre-configured with a Jetty server, which acts as a general-purpose HTTP server and HTTP servlet container. Through a single HTTP port (by default,
http://Host:8181), the Jetty container can host multiple services, for example:
- Fuse Management Console (by default,
http://Host:8181/hawtio) - Apache CXF Web services endpoints (by default,
http://Host:8181/cxf, if the host and port are left unspecified in the endpoint configuration) - Some Apache Camel endpoints
If you use the default Jetty server for all of your HTTP endpoints, you can conveniently add SSL/TLS security to these HTTP endpoints by following the steps described here.
Create X.509 certificate and private key
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Before you can enable SSL, you must create an X.509 certificate and private key for the Web console. The certificate and private key must be in Java keystore format. For details of how to create a signed certificate and private key, see Appendix A, Managing Certificates.
Enabling SSL/TLS for Jetty in a standalone container
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To enable SSL/TLS for Jetty in a standalone (non-Fabric) Karaf container:
- Open
etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfgin a text editor. - Replace the original content of the
etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfgfile with the following settings:Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Where the new settings disable the existing insecure HTTP port (on 8181) and enable a new secure HTTPS port (on 8443). - Customize the SSL/TLS settings in
etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfgas follows:org.osgi.service.http.port.secure- Specifies the TCP port number of the secure HTTPS port.
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.keystore- The location of the Java keystore file on the file system. Relative paths are resolved relative to the
KARAF_HOMEenvironment variable (by default, the install directory). org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.password- The store password that unlocks the Java keystore file.
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.keypassword- The key password that decrypts the private key stored in the keystore (usually the same as the store password).
- Restart the JBoss Fuse container, in order for the configuration changes to take effect.
Customizing allowed TLS protocols and cipher suites
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You can customize the allowed TLS protocols and cipher suites by setting the following properties in the
etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfg file:
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.protocols.included- Specifies a list of allowed TLS/SSL protocols.
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.protocols.excluded- Specifies a list of disallowed TLS/SSL protocols.
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.ciphersuites.included- Specifies a list of allowed TLS/SSL cipher suites.
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.ciphersuites.excluded- Specifies a list of disallowed TLS/SSL cipher suites.
For full details of the available protocols and cipher suites, consult the appropriate JVM documentation and security provider documentation. For example, for Java 7, see Java Cryptography Architecture Oracle Providers Documentation for Java Platform Standard Edition 7.
Connect to the secure console
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After configuring SSL security for the Jetty server in the Pax Web configuration file, you should be able to open the Fuse Management Console by browsing to the following URL:
https://Host:8443/hawtio
https://Host:8443/hawtioNote
Remember to type the
https: scheme, instead of http:, in this URL.
Initially, the browser will warn you that you are using an untrusted certificate. Skip this warning and you will be presented with the login screen for the Fuse Management Console.
Advanced Jetty security configuration
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In order to have more control over the Jetty security settings, you can enable Jetty security by modifying the configuration settings in the
etc/jetty.xml file. This approach gives you access to the full Jetty security API:
- Open
etc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfgin a text editor. - Disable the insecure HTTP port by adding the org.osgi.service.http.enabled and setting it to
false; and enable the secure HTTPS port by adding the org.osgi.service.http.secure.enabled and setting it totrue. Change the value oforg.ops4j.pax.web.config.fileto reference the file,etc/jetty-ssl.xml(which you will create in the next step).Theetc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfgfile should now have the following contents:Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create a new file,
etc/jetty-ssl.xml, with the following contents:Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow ImportantThe preceding configuration explicitly disables the SSLv3 protocol, in order to safeguard against the Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566). For more details, see Disabling SSLv3 in JBoss Fuse 6.x and JBoss A-MQ 6.x. - (Optional) If you prefer, you can use a system property to help you specify the location of the Java keystore file. For example, instead of setting the
KeyStorePathproperty explicitly (in the precedingetc/jetty-ssl.xmlconfiguration):<Set name="KeyStorePath">/home/jdoe/Documents/jetty.ks</Set>
<Set name="KeyStorePath">/home/jdoe/Documents/jetty.ks</Set>Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You could use thekaraf.homesystem property to specify the location of the keystore file relative to the JBoss Fuse install directory:<Set name="KeyStorePath"> <SystemProperty name="karaf.home"/>/etc/jetty.ks </Set><Set name="KeyStorePath"> <SystemProperty name="karaf.home"/>/etc/jetty.ks </Set>Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Customize the properties of the
SslContextFactoryinstance defined in theetc/jetty-ssl.xmlfile, as follows:KeyStorePath- The location of the Java keystore file on the file system. Relative paths are resolved relative to the
KARAF_HOMEenvironment variable (by default, the install directory). KeyStorePassword- The store password that unlocks the Java keystore file.
KeyManagerPassword- The key password that decrypts the private key stored in the keystore (usually the same as the store password).
- Restart the JBoss Fuse container, in order for the configuration changes to take effect.NoteThe Apache Karaf container does not automatically detect changes in the
etc/jetty-ssl.xmlfile. Hence, if you make subsequent edits to theetc/jetty-ssl.xmlfile, you must also update theetc/org.ops4j.pax.web.cfgfile (by making a trivial edit or using the UNIXtouchcommand), in order to force Apache Karaf to reload theetc/jetty-ssl.xmlfile.
Enabling SSL/TLS for Jetty in a Fabric
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Securing Jetty in a Fabric is slightly more complicated than securing Jetty in a standalone Karaf container, because each container must also be configured as a secure client of the Jetty HTTP server. For example, whenever a new container is provisioned in a Fabric, it downloads artifacts by connecting to the Maven proxy through the Jetty HTTPS port on the root container. Hence, each container in the Fabric must be configured to trust the HTTPS connection to the root container (by configuring a trust store).
Note
The procedure described here assumes that you are about to create a Fabric from scratch. It is generally not feasible to add SSL/TLS security to a pre-existing Fabric, because this puts you in a Catch-22 situation with respect to provisioning the containers.
To enable SSL/TLS for Jetty in a Fabric:
- Under the root container's installation directory, create the new directory,
etc/certs. - In the
etc/certsdirectory, create a new self-signed certificate and private key using the Javakeytoolutility, as follows:keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Hostname" -ext SubjectAlternativeName=ip:PUBLIC_IP -validity 365 -keystore alice.ks -alias alice -keypass KeyPass -storepass StorePass
keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Hostname" -ext SubjectAlternativeName=ip:PUBLIC_IP -validity 365 -keystore alice.ks -alias alice -keypass KeyPass -storepass StorePassCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow After executing this command, the key pair is stored in thealice.kskeystore file under the alias,alice. Pay particular attention to theHostnamevalue and thePUBLIC_IPvalue: the specifiedHostnamemust be the name of the host where the root container is deployed andPUBLIC_IPis the public IP address. The other Fabric containers will check that the certificate's Common Name (CN) matches the root container's host name during the SSL/TLS handshake.For a more detailed explanation of key pairs and instructions for (optionally) signing the resulting certificate with a Certificate Authority (CA), see Appendix A, Managing Certificates.NoteIf there are multiple containers (Fabric servers) in the Fabric ensemble, you must create and deploy a separate key pair for each container in the ensemble, where the specifiedHostnamematches the respective container host. The other containers in the Fabric must then be configured to trust all of the ensemble certificates (which you could do, for example, by adding all of the ensemble certificates to a trust store file accessible to the other containers). - Start up the root container:
./bin/fuse
./bin/fuseCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create a new fabric, by entering a console command like the following:
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow ImportantTheHostnamevalue specifed infabric:createmust be exactly the sameHostnamevalue that was assigned to the CN field of the certificate in step 2. Otherwise, when you create a new child container, the hostname check will fail during the SSL/TLS handshake and the child container will fail to provision.NoteIn a production system (and for any long-running demonstration system), the Fabric server must be deployed on a host that has a static IP address. - Edit the Jetty Web server properties for the
org.ops4j.pax.webpersistent ID in thedefaultprofile. You can edit these properties either from the Fuse Management Console (by navigating tohttp://localhost:8181/hawtioin your browser) or using the built-in editor at the console:JBossFuse:karaf@root> profile-edit --resource org.ops4j.pax.web.properties default
JBossFuse:karaf@root> profile-edit --resource org.ops4j.pax.web.properties defaultCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Add the following settings to the existing content of theorg.ops4j.pax.web.propertiesresource:Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Customize theorg.ops4j.pax.websettings as follows:org.osgi.service.http.enabled- Set to
false, to disable the insecure Jetty HTTP port. org.osgi.service.http.secure.enabled- Set to
true, to enable the secure Jetty HTTPS port. org.osgi.service.http.port.secure- Specifies the TCP port number of the secure HTTPS port. You should use the Fabric port service (see section "The Port Service" in "Fabric Guide"), which enables you to specify a range of ports for this setting,
${port:8443,8543}. This ensure that any child containers are automatically allocated unique port numbers. org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.keystore- The location of the Java keystore file on the file system. This should be specified as an absolute pathname, to ensure that both the root container and child containers can locate the keystore file (child containers evaluate relatives paths differently from the root container). For example, a typical setting might look like this:
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.keystore=/opt/servers/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/certs/alice.ks
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.keystore=/opt/servers/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/certs/alice.ksCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.password- The store password that unlocks the Java keystore file.
org.ops4j.pax.web.ssl.keypassword- The key password that decrypts the private key stored in the keystore (usually the same as the store password).
- Create a truststore file for the child containers. There are a few different approaches you can take when creating the truststore:
- The simplest option is to use the keystore file—for example,
etc/certs/alice.ks—directly as the truststore. - If you need to trust multiple certificates, extract the
alicecertificate from thealice.kstruststore and add it to an existing truststore file which contains all of the other certificates you want to trust. - If you signed the
alicecertificate with a CA, you can add the CA certificate to the truststore file.
- The current instructions apply to a fabric that has only one container in its ensemble (the root container). If you set up a fabric with three ensemble servers, however, you would need to make sure that you configure the truststores so that each ensemble server trusts the other two. For example, with three ensemble servers:
- Add public keys from servers 1 and 2 to truststore for server 3.
- Add public keys from servers 2 and 3 to truststore for server 1.
- Add public keys from servers 3 and 1 to truststore for server 2.
Alternatively, if you have set up a certificate authority (CA), a more practical approach would be to sign all of the certificates with the same CA certificate and then put the CA certificate into the truststore (that is, in this case only the CA certificate needs to be in the truststore and the same truststore can be used on all of the hosts). - Shut down the root container (for example, by entering
shutdown -fat the console) and specify the truststore and truststore password on the root container. To specify the truststore as a JVM argument, edit the root container'setc/setenvfile and add the following line:EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/servers/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/certs/alice.ks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=StorePass"
EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/servers/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/certs/alice.ks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=StorePass"Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Where this example assumes you are using thealice.ksfile directly as the truststore. - Restart the root container. Search the log (for example, by entering the
log:displayconsole command) and look for a line like the following:17:37:35,576 | INFO | pool-3-thread-1 | JettyServerImpl | 117 - org.ops4j.pax.web.pax-web-jetty - 4.2.6 | Pax Web available at [0.0.0.0]:[8453]
17:37:35,576 | INFO | pool-3-thread-1 | JettyServerImpl | 117 - org.ops4j.pax.web.pax-web-jetty - 4.2.6 | Pax Web available at [0.0.0.0]:[8453]Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow This gives you the port number of the secure Jetty Web server. You can login to the Fuse Management Console using this port—for example, using a URL like the following (not forgetting to specify the scheme ashttps):https://Host:8543
https://Host:8543Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - You can now create a new child container with Jetty security enabled, by specifying the truststore and truststore password as JVM arguments when you create the child container. For example, assuming that you are using the
alice.ksfile directly as a truststore, you can create a secure child container with a command like the following:JBossFuse:karaf@root> container-create-child --jvm-opts='-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/servers/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/certs/alice.ks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=StorePass' --profile fabric root child
JBossFuse:karaf@root> container-create-child --jvm-opts='-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/servers/jboss-fuse-6.3.0.redhat-xxx/etc/certs/alice.ks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=StorePass' --profile fabric root childCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Check the provision status of the new child using the
fabric:container-listconsole command (or by monitoring the Container tab of the Fuse Management Console). If the child fails to provision, check the logs of both the root container and the child container for errors.
References
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The Jetty server provides flexible and sophisticated options for configuring security. You can exploit these advanced options by editing the
etc/jetty-ssl.xml file and configuring it as described in the Jetty security documentation:
Chapter 4. Securing the Camel ActiveMQ Component
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Abstract
The Camel ActiveMQ component enables you to define JMS endpoints in your routes that can connect to an Apache ActiveMQ broker. In order to make your Camel ActiveMQ endpoints secure, you must create an instance of a Camel ActiveMQ component that uses a secure connection factory.
4.1. Secure ActiveMQ Connection Factory
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Overview
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Apache Camel provides an Apache ActiveMQ component for defining Apache ActiveMQ endpoints in a route. The Apache ActiveMQ endpoints are effectively Java clients of the broker and you can either define a consumer endpoint (typically used at the start of a route to poll for JMS messages) or define a producer endpoint (typically used at the end or in the middle of a route to send JMS messages to a broker).
When the remote broker is secure (SSL security, JAAS security, or both), the Apache ActiveMQ component must be configured with the required client security settings.
Programming the security properties
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Apache ActiveMQ enables you to program SSL security settings (and JAAS security settings) by creating and configuring an instance of the
ActiveMQSslConnectionFactory JMS connection factory. Programming the JMS connection factory is the correct approach to use in the context of the containers such as OSGi, J2EE, Tomcat, and so on, because these settings are local to the application using the JMS connection factory instance.
Note
A standalone broker can configure SSL settings using Java system properties. For clients deployed in a container, however, this is not a practical approach, because the configuration must apply only to individual bundles, not the entire OSGi container. A Camel ActiveMQ endpoint is effectively a kind of Apache ActiveMQ Java client, so this restriction applies also to Camel ActiveMQ endpoints.
Defining a secure connection factory
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Example 4.1, “Defining a Secure Connection Factory Bean” shows how to create a secure connection factory bean in Spring XML, enabling both SSL/TLS security and JAAS authentication.
Example 4.1. Defining a Secure Connection Factory Bean
The following properties are specified on the
ActiveMQSslConnectionFactory class:
brokerURL- The URL of the remote broker to connect to, where this example connects to an SSL-enabled OpenWire port on the local host. The broker must also define a corresponding transport connector with compatible port settings.
userNameandpassword- Any valid JAAS login credentials,
UsernameandPassword. trustStore- Location of the Java keystore file containing the certificate trust store for SSL connections. The location is specified as a classpath resource. If a relative path is specified, the resource location is relative to the
org/jbossfuse/exampledirectory on the classpath. trustStorePassword- The password that unlocks the keystore file containing the trust store.
It is also possible to specify
keyStore and keyStorePassword properties, but these would only be needed, if SSL mutual authentication is enabled (where the client presents an X.509 certificate to the broker during the SSL handshake).
4.2. Example Camel ActiveMQ Component Configuration
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This section describes how to initialize and configure a sample Camel ActiveMQ component instance, which you can then use to define ActiveMQ endpoints in a Camel route. This makes it possible for a Camel route to send or receive messages from a broker.
Prerequisites
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The
camel-activemq feature, which defines the bundles required for the Camel ActiveMQ component, is not installed by default. To install the camel-activemq feature, enter the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-activemq
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-activemqSample Camel ActiveMQ component
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The following Spring XML sample shows a complete configuration of a Camel ActiveMQ component that has both SSL/TLS security and JAAS authentication enabled. The Camel ActiveMQ component instance is defined to with the
activemqssl bean ID, which means it is associated with the activemqssl scheme (which you use when defining endpoints in a Camel route).
Sample Camel route
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The following Camel route defines a sample endpoint that sends messages securely to the
security.test queue on the broker, using the activemqssl scheme to reference the Camel ActiveMQ component defined in the preceding example:
Chapter 5. Securing the Camel Jetty Component
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5.1. Enabling SSL/TLS Security
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Overview
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This section explains how to enable SSL/TLS security on the Apache Camel Jetty component, which is used to create a HTTPS Web server. The key step is to customize the Jetty component by setting the
sslSocketConnectorProperties property, which configures SSL/TLS. You must also change the protocol scheme on the Jetty URI from http to https.
Tutorial steps
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To configure SSL/TLS security for a Camel Jetty endpoint deployed in the OSGi container, perform the following steps:
Generate a Maven project
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The
maven-archetype-quickstart archetype creates a generic Maven project, which you can then customize for whatever purpose you like. To generate a Maven project with the coordinates, org.jbossfuse.example:jetty-security, enter the following command:
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DgroupId=org.jbossfuse.example -DartifactId=jetty-security
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DgroupId=org.jbossfuse.example -DartifactId=jetty-security
The result of this command is a directory,
ProjectDir/jetty-security, containing the files for the generated project.
Note
Be careful not to choose a group ID for your artifact that clashes with the group ID of an existing product! This could lead to clashes between your project's packages and the packages from the existing product (because the group ID is typically used as the root of a project's Java package names).
Customize the POM file
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You must customize the POM file in order to generate an OSGi bundle. Follow the POM customization steps described in section "Generating a Bundle Project" in "Deploying into Apache Karaf".
Alternatively, edit the
jetty-security/pom.xml file and replace its contents with the following XML code:
Install sample keystore files
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In a convenient location, create the
clientKeystore.jks key pair and the serviceKeystore.jks key pair using the Java keytool utility, as follows:
keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Client, OU=Engineering, O=Red Hat, ST=Dublin, C=IE" -validity 365 -alias client -keypass KeyPass -keystore clientKeystore.jks -storepass StorePass keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Service, OU=Engineering, O=Red Hat, ST=Dublin, C=IE" -validity 365 -alias service -keypass KeyPass -keystore serviceKeystore.jks -storepass StorePass
keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Client, OU=Engineering, O=Red Hat, ST=Dublin, C=IE" -validity 365 -alias client -keypass KeyPass -keystore clientKeystore.jks -storepass StorePass
keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Service, OU=Engineering, O=Red Hat, ST=Dublin, C=IE" -validity 365 -alias service -keypass KeyPass -keystore serviceKeystore.jks -storepass StorePass
Copy the
clientKeystore.jks certificate and the serviceKeystore.jks certificate to the EsbInstallDir/etc/certs directory (where you will need to create the etc/certs sub-directory). After copying, you should have the following directory structure under EsbInstallDir/etc/:
Where
clientKeystore.jks, and serviceKeystore.jks are the keystores that are used in this demonstration.
Warning
The demonstration key store and trust store are provided for testing purposes only. Do not deploy these certificates in a production system. To set up a genuinely secure SSL/TLS system, you must generate custom certificates, as described in Appendix A, Managing Certificates.
Configure Jetty with SSL/TLS
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The Jetty Web server is created by defining a Jetty endpoint at the start of an Apache Camel route. The route is then responsible for processing the incoming HTTP request and generating a reply. The current example simply sends back a small HTML page in the reply. For a more realistic application, you would typically process the incoming message using a bean, which accesses the message through the Java servlet API.
Create the following directory to hold the Spring configuration files:
ProjectDir/jetty-security/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring
ProjectDir/jetty-security/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring
In the
spring directory that you just created, use your favourite text editor to create the file, jetty-spring.xml, containing the following XML configuration:
The
jetty bean defines a new instance of the Apache Camel Jetty component, overriding the default component defined in the camel-jetty JAR file. This Jetty component is configured using the sslContextParameters element, as follows:
secureSocketProtocols- Explicitly lists the SSL/TLS protocols supported by the Jetty server.ImportantThis configuration explicitly disables the SSLv3 protocol, in order to safeguard against the Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566). For more details, see Disabling SSLv3 in JBoss Fuse 6.x and JBoss A-MQ 6.x.
keyManagers/@keyPassword- The password that decrypts the private key stored in the keystore (usually having the same value as
password). keyManagers/keyStore/@resource- The location of the Java keystore file (in JKS format) containing the Jetty server's own X.509 certificate and private key. This location is specified on the filesystem (not on the classpath), relative to the directory where the OSGi container is started.
keyManagers/keyStore/@password- The keystore password that unlocks the keystore.
trustManagers/@resource- The location of the Java keystore file containing one or more trusted certificates (that is, the CA certificates that have been used to sign X.509 certificates from trusted clients). This location is specified on the filesystem (not on the classpath), relative to the directory where the OSGi container is started.Strictly speaking, this property is not needed, if clients do not send certificates to the Jetty service.
trustManagers/@password- The keystore password that unlocks the
truststoretrust store.
You must also modify the URI at the start of the route (the
uri attribute of the from element). Make sure that the scheme of the URI matches the secure Jetty component, jetty, that you have just created. You must also change the protocol scheme from http to https.
Note
Always double-check you have changed the protocol scheme to
https. This is such a small change, it is easy to forget.
Build the bundle
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Use Maven to build the bundle. Open a command prompt, switch the current directory to
ProjectDir/jetty-security, and enter the following command:
mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
This command builds the bundle and installs it in your local Maven repository.
Install the camel-jetty feature
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If you have not already done so, start up the JBoss Fuse console (and container instance) by entering the following command in a new command prompt:
./bin/fuse
./bin/fuse
The
camel-jetty feature, which defines the bundles required for the Camel/Jetty component, is not installed by default. To install the camel-jetty feature, enter the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-jetty
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-jettyDeploy the bundle
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To deploy and activate the bundle, enter the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> osgi:install -s mvn:org.jbossfuse.example/jetty-security/1.0-SNAPSHOT
JBossFuse:karaf@root> osgi:install -s mvn:org.jbossfuse.example/jetty-security/1.0-SNAPSHOT
The preceding command loads the bundle from your local Maven repository. You might need to configure the Mvn URL handler with the location of your local Maven repository, if the bundle cannot be found (see section "Mvn URL Handler" in "Deploying into Apache Karaf").
Test the bundle
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To test the Jetty service, enter the following
curl command at a comand-line prompt:
curl https://localhost:8282/services -k
curl https://localhost:8282/services -kNote
Don't forget to use
https: instead of http: in the URL!
The
-k flag allows curl to skip the SSL certificate check (that is, checking that the received server certificate is signed by a local CA certificate), so that the server identity is not verified. You should receive the following HTTP response:
<html><body>Hello from Fuse ESB server</body></html>
<html><body>Hello from Fuse ESB server</body></html>Uninstall the bundle
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To uninstall the broker bundle, you need to know its bundle ID, BundleID, in which case you can uninstall it by entering the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> osgi:uninstall BundleID
JBossFuse:karaf@root> osgi:uninstall BundleID5.2. BASIC Authentication with JAAS
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Overview
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The HTTP BASIC authentication protocol is a simple username/password authentication mechanism that is integrated into HTTP and is supported by most Web browsers. To enable BASIC authentication in Jetty, you use the Jetty security API, which enables BASIC authentication by associating a security handler with the Jetty endpoint.
Jetty also enables you to plug in a JAAS login module to perform the credentials check. Using this feature, it is possible to integrate credentials checking with any JAAS realm provided by the Red Hat JBoss Fuse OSGi container. In the example shown here, the Jetty authentication is integrated with the default JAAS realm,
karaf.
Prerequisites
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This example builds on the project created in Section 5.1, “Enabling SSL/TLS Security”. You must complete the steps in the Jetty SSL/TLS example before proceeding with this tutorial.
Note
In any case, it is highly recommended that you always enable SSL/TLS in combination with BASIC authentication, in order to protect against password snooping.
Authentication steps
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To configure HTTP BASIC authentication for a Camel Jetty endpoint deployed in the OSGi container, perform the following steps:
Add the Jetty security handler configuration
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In the
jetty-security project, edit the jetty-spring.xml file from the src/main/resources/META-INF/spring directory. To configure the Jetty security handler with BASIC authentication, add the following bean definitions:
Two aspects of Jetty authentication are configured by the preceding bean definitions:
- HTTP BASIC authentication—the
constraintbean enables HTTP BASIC authentication on the Jetty security handler. Therolesproperty (ofString[]type) is used to define which roles have access to the Jetty container. In this example, this property is set toAdministrator, so only users with theAdministratorrole can access this Jetty container. - JAAS login service—the
loginServicebean specifies that the requisite authentication data is extracted from a JAAS realm. TheloginModuleNameproperty specifies that the Jetty login service uses thekarafJAAS realm, which is the OSGi container's default JAAS realm (see Section 1.1, “OSGi Container Security”).
Modify Camel Jetty endpoint
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After creating the Jetty
securityHandler bean, you must modify the Jetty endpoint URI in the Apache Camel route, so that it hooks into the security handler. To add the security handler to the Jetty endpoint, set the handlers option equal to the security handler's bean ID, as shown in the following example:
Note
URI options must be separated by the
& entity, instead of the plain & character, in the context of an XML file.
Add required package imports to POM
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Edit the
jetty-security project's POM file, jetty-security/pom.xml. Further down the POM file, in the configuration of the Maven bundle plug-in, modify the bundle instructions to import additional Java packages, as follows:
Note
These extra imports are required, because the Maven bundle plug-in is not capable of scanning Spring files to determine their package dependencies automatically.
Build the bundle
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Use Maven to build the bundle. Open a command prompt, switch the current directory to
ProjectDir/jetty-security, and enter the following command:
mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=trueInstall the required features
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If you have not already done so, start up the JBoss Fuse container by entering the following command in a new command prompt:
./bin/fuse
./bin/fuse
If not already installed, install the
camel-jetty feature using the following console command:
karaf@root> features:install camel-jetty
karaf@root> features:install camel-jettyDeploy the bundle
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To deploy and activate the bundle, enter the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> osgi:install -s mvn:org.jbossfuse.example/jetty-security/1.0-SNAPSHOT
JBossFuse:karaf@root> osgi:install -s mvn:org.jbossfuse.example/jetty-security/1.0-SNAPSHOTTest the bundle
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To test the Jetty service, enter the following
curl command at a comand-line prompt:
curl https://0.0.0.0:8282/services -k --user Username:Password
curl https://0.0.0.0:8282/services -k --user Username:PasswordNote
Don't forget to use
https: instead of http: in the URL!
The
--user option is needed to specify the BASIC authentication credentials. For the Username and Password values, specify valid JAAS credentials (the valid credentials you can use for this step are specified in the EsbInstallDir/etc/users.properties file). You should now receive the following HTTP reply message:
<html><body>Hello from Fuse ESB server</body></html>
<html><body>Hello from Fuse ESB server</body></html>Chapter 6. Configuring Transport Security for Camel Components
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Abstract
Camel provides the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) Utility API as a common way to configure Camel components to use Transport Layer Security (TLS). The main JSSE utility class is
org.apache.util.jsse.SSLContextParameters. To configure TLS settings, you pass an instance of this class to a Camel component. You can configure an SSLContextParameters object by using pure Java or by using Spring or Blueprint XML.
The following code is an example of using Spring XML to configure an
SSLContextParameters object:
This shows the toplevel
sslContextParameters element with keyManagers and trustManagers child elements. The keyManagers element configures the key store while the trustManagers element configures the trust store. For details about key stores and trust stores, see the Apache Camel documentation for the JSSE utility.
With this in place, you can reference the
sslContextParameters bean in your endpoint URI. The following route runs a netty4 HTTPS endpoint. The ssl option is required. For example:
The following code provides an example of how to configure transport security in Java:
The Java route for a
netty4 HTTPS endpoint looks like the following. The ssl option is required.
from("netty4:https://localhost:8080/early?sslContextParametersRef=
#sslContextParameters&ssl=true").transform().constant("Hi");
from("netty4:https://localhost:8080/early?sslContextParametersRef=
#sslContextParameters&ssl=true").transform().constant("Hi");
In Camel, to call these HTTPS endpoints, also provide the
sslContextParameters object that contains a trusted certificate. The following example reuses the server sslContextParameters object. In this example, the URI syntax is the same for the producer. For example:
String reply =
template.requestBody(
"netty4:https://localhost:8080/early?ssl=true&sslContextParametersRef=
sslContextParameters", "Hi Camel!", String.class);
String reply =
template.requestBody(
"netty4:https://localhost:8080/early?ssl=true&sslContextParametersRef=
sslContextParameters", "Hi Camel!", String.class);
If you do not provide an
sslContextParameters object that contains a valid trust store then the server does not allow a connection and Camel throws an execution exception - CamelExecutionException.
Chapter 7. Securing the Camel CXF Component
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Abstract
This chapter explains how to enable SSL/TLS security on a Camel CXF endpoint, using the Camel CXF proxy demonstration as the starting point. The Camel CXF component enables you to add Apache CXF endpoints to your Apache Camel routes. This makes it possible to simulate a Web service in Apache Camel or you could interpose a route between a WS client and a Web service to perform additional processing (which is the case considered here).
7.1. The Camel CXF Proxy Demonstration
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Overview
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In order to explain how to secure a Camel CXF endpoint in OSGi, this tutorial builds on an example available from the standalone distribution of Apache Camel, the Camel CXF proxy demonstration. Figure 7.1, “Camel CXF Proxy Overview” gives an overview of how this demonstration works
Figure 7.1. Camel CXF Proxy Overview
The report incident Web service, which is implemented by the
RealWebServiceBean, receives details of an incident (for example, a traffic accident) and returns a tracking code to the client. Instead of sending its requests directly to the real Web service, however, the WS client connects to a Camel CXF endpoint, which is interposed between the WS client and the real Web service. The Apache Camel route performs some processing on the WSDL message (using the enrichBean) before forwarding it to the real Web service.
Warning
If you enable SSL/TLS security, you must ensure that you explicitly disable the SSLv3 protocol, in order to safeguard against the Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566). For more details, see Disabling SSLv3 in JBoss Fuse 6.x and JBoss A-MQ 6.x.
Modifications
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In order to demonstrate how to enable SSL/TLS on a Camel CXF endpoint in the context of OSGi, this chapter contains instructions on how to modify the basic demonstration as follows:
- SSL/TLS security is enabled on the connection between the WS client and the Camel CXF endpoint.
- The Apache Camel route and the
RealWebServiceBeanbean are both deployed into the OSGi container.
Obtaining the demonstration code
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The Camel CXF proxy demonstration is available only from the standalone distribution of Apache Camel, which is included in the
InstallDir/extras directory. Using a standard archive utility, expand the Camel archive file and extract the contents to a convenient location on your filesystem.
Assuming that you have installed Apache Camel in CamelInstallDir, you can find the Camel CXF proxy demonstration in the following directory:
CamelInstallDir/examples/camel-example-cxf-proxy
CamelInstallDir/examples/camel-example-cxf-proxyObtaining the sample certificates
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This demonstration needs X.509 certificates. In a real deployment, you should generate these certificates yourself using a private certificate authority. For this demonstration, however, we use some sample certificates from the Apache CXF
wsdl_first_http example. This demonstration is available from the standalone distribution of Apache CXF, which is included in the InstallDir/extras directory. Using a standard archive utility, expand the CXF archive file and extract the contents to a convenient location on your filesystem.
Assuming that you have installed Apache CXF in CXFInstallDir, you can find the
wsdl_first_http demonstration in the following directory:
CXFInstallDir/samples/wsdl_first_http
CXFInstallDir/samples/wsdl_first_httpPhysical part of the WSDL contract
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The physical part of the WSDL contract refers to the
wsdl:service and wsdl:port elements. These elements specify the transport details that are needed to connect to a specific Web services endpoint. For the purposes of this demonstration, this is the most interesting part of the contract and it is shown in Example 7.1, “The ReportIncidentEndpointService WSDL Service”.
Example 7.1. The ReportIncidentEndpointService WSDL Service
Note
The address URL appearing in the WSDL contract (the value of the
soap:address element's location attribute) is not important here, because the application code overrides the default value of the address URL.
WSDL addressing details
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A WS client needs three pieces of information to connect to a WSDL service: the WSDL service name, the WSDL port name, and the address URL of the Web service. The following addressing details are used to connect to the proxy Web service and to the real Web service in this example:
- WSDL service name
- The full QName of the WSDL service is as follows:
{http://reportincident.example.camel.apache.org}ReportIncidentEndpointService{http://reportincident.example.camel.apache.org}ReportIncidentEndpointServiceCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - WSDL port name
- The full QName of the WSDL port is as follows:
{http://reportincident.example.camel.apache.org}ReportIncidentEndpoint{http://reportincident.example.camel.apache.org}ReportIncidentEndpointCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Address URL
- The address URL of the proxy Web service endpoint (which uses the HTTPS protocol) is as follows:
https://localhost:9080/camel-example-cxf-proxy/webservices/incident
https://localhost:9080/camel-example-cxf-proxy/webservices/incidentCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow NoteThe preceding address is specified when thereportIncidentbean is created using acxf:cxfEndpointelement in the bundle's Spring configuration file,src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/camel-config.xml.The address URL of the real Web service endpoint (using the HTTP protocol) is as follows:http://localhost:9081/real-webservice
http://localhost:9081/real-webserviceCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow NoteThe preceding address is specified when therealWebServicebean is created in the bundle's Spring configuration file,src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/camel-config.xml.
7.2. Securing the Web Services Proxy
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Overview
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This section explains how to enable SSL/TLS security on the Camel CXF endpoint, which acts as a proxy for the real Web service. Assuming that you already have the X.509 certificates available, all that is required is to add a block of configuration data to the Spring configuration file (where the configuration data is contained in a
httpj:engine-factory element). There is just one slightly subtle aspect to this, however: you need to understand how the Camel CXF endpoint gets associated with the SSL/TLS configuration details.
Implicit configuration
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A WS endpoint can be configured by creating the endpoint in Spring and then configuring SSL/TLS properties on its Jetty container. The configuration can be somewhat confusing, however, for the following reason: the Jetty container (which is configured by a
httpj:engine-factory element in Spring) does not explicitly reference the WS endpoints it contains and the WS endpoints do not explicitly reference the Jetty container either. The connection between the Jetty container and its contained endpoints is established implicitly, in that they are both configured to use the same TCP port, as illustrated by Figure 7.2, “WS Endpoint Implicitly Configured by httpj:engine-factory Element”.
Figure 7.2. WS Endpoint Implicitly Configured by httpj:engine-factory Element
The connection between the Web service endpoint and the
httpj:engine-factory element is established as follows:
- The Spring container loads and parses the file containing the
httpj:engine-factoryelement. - When the
httpj:engine-factorybean is created, a corresponding entry is created in the registry, storing a reference to the bean. Thehttpj:engine-factorybean is also used to initialize a Jetty container that listens on the specified TCP port. - When the WS endpoint is created, it scans the registry to see if it can find a
httpj:engine-factorybean with the same TCP port as the TCP port in the endpoint's address URL. - If one of the beans matches the endpoint's TCP port, the WS endpoint installs itself into the corresponding Jetty container. If the Jetty container has SSL/TLS enabled, the WS endpoint shares those security settings.
Steps to add SSL/TLS security to the Jetty container
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To add SSL/TLS security to the Jetty container, thereby securing the WS proxy endpoint, perform the following steps:
Add certificates to the bundle resources
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The certificates used in this demonstration are taken from a sample in the Apache CXF 3.1.5.redhat-630xxx product. If you install the standalone version of Apache CXF (available in the
InstallDir/extras/ directory), you will find the sample certificates in the CXFInstallDir/samples/wsdl_first_https/src/main/config directory.
Copy the
clientKeystore.jks and serviceKeystore.jks keystores from the CXFInstallDir/samples/wsdl_first_https/src/main/config directory to the CamelInstallDir/examples/camel-example-cxf-proxy/src/main/resources/certs directory (you must first create the certs sub-directory).
Modify POM to switch off resource filtering
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Including the certificates directly in the bundle as resource is the most convenient way to deploy them. But when you deploy certificates as resources in a Maven project, you must remember to disable Maven resource filtering, which corrupts binary files.
To disable filtering of
.jks files in Maven, open the project POM file, CamelInstallDir/examples/camel-example-cxf-proxy/pom.xml, with a text editor and add the following resources element as a child of the build element:
Instantiate the CXF Bus
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You should instantiate the CXF bus explicitly in the Spring XML (this ensures that it will be available to the Jetty container, which is instantiated by the
httpj:engine-factory element in the next step). Edit the camel-config.xml file in the src/main/resources/META-INF/spring directory, adding the cxfcore:bus element as a child of the beans element, as follows:
<beans ... >
...
<cxfcore:bus/>
...
</beans>
<beans ... >
...
<cxfcore:bus/>
...
</beans>Note
The
cxfcore: namespace prefix will be defined in a later step.
Add the httpj:engine-factory element to Spring configuration
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To configure the Jetty container that listens on TCP port 9080 to use SSL/TLS security, edit the
camel-config.xml file in the src/main/resources/META-INF/spring directory, adding the httpj:engine-factory element as shown in Example 7.2, “httpj:engine-factory Element with SSL/TLS Enabled”.
In this example, the
required attribute of the sec:clientAuthentication element is set to false, which means that a connecting client is not required to present an X.509 certificate to the server during the SSL/TLS handshake (although it may do so, if it has such a certificate).
Example 7.2. httpj:engine-factory Element with SSL/TLS Enabled
Important
You must set
secureSocketProtocol to TLSv1 on the server side, in order to protect against the Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)
Define the cxfcore:, sec: and httpj: prefixes
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Define the
cxfcore:, sec: and httpj: namespace prefixes, which appear in the definitions of the cxfcore:bus element and the httpj:engine-factory element, by adding the following highlighted lines to the beans element in the camel-config.xml file:
Note
It is essential to specify the locations of the
http://cxf.apache.org/configuration/security schema and the http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http-jetty/configuration schema in the xsi:schemaLocation attribute. These will not automatically be provided by the OSGi container.
Modify proxy address URL to use HTTPS
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The proxy endpoint at the start of the Apache Camel route is configured by the
cxf:cxfEndpoint element in the camel-config.xml file. By default, this proxy endpoint is configured to use the HTTP protocol. You must modify the address URL to use the secure HTTPS protocol instead, however. In the camel-config.xml file, edit the address attribute of the cxf:cxfEndpoint element, replacing the http: prefix by the https: prefix, as shown in the following fragment:
Notice also that the address URL is configured to use the TCP port,
${proxy.port} (which has the value 9080 by default). This TCP port value is the same as the value set for the Jetty container (configured by the http:engine-factory element), thus ensuring that this endpoint is deployed into the Jetty container. The attributes of the cxf:cxfEndpoint specify the WSDL addressing details as described in the section called “WSDL addressing details”:
-
serviceName - Specifies the WSDL service name.
-
endpointName - Specifies the WSDL port name.
-
address - Specifies the address URL of the proxy Web service.
7.3. Deploying the Apache Camel Route
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Overview
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The Maven POM file in the basic Camel CXF proxy demonstration is already configured to generate an OSGi bundle. Hence, after building the demonstration using Maven, the demonstration bundle (which contains the Apache Camel route and the
RealWebServicesBean bean) is ready for deployment into the OSGi container.
Prerequisites
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Before deploying the Apache Camel route into the OSGi container, you must configure the proxy Web service to use SSL/TLS security, as described in the previous section, Section 7.2, “Securing the Web Services Proxy”.
Steps to deploy the Camel route
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To deploy the Web services proxy demonstration into the OSGi container, perform the following steps:
Build the demonstration
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Use Maven to build and install the demonstration as an OSGi bundle. Open a command prompt, switch the current directory to
CamelInstallDir/examples/camel-example-cxf-proxy, and enter the following command:
mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=trueStart the OSGi container
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If you have not already done so, start up the Karaf console (and container instance) by entering the following command in a new command prompt:
./fuse
./fuseInstall the required features
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The
camel-cxf feature, which defines the bundles required for the Camel/CXF component, is not installed by default. To install the camel-cxf feature, enter the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-cxf
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-cxf
You also need the
camel-http feature, which defines the bundles required for the Camel/HTTP component. To install the camel-http feature, enter the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-http
JBossFuse:karaf@root> features:install camel-httpDeploy the bundle
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Deploy the
camel-example-cxf-proxy bundle, by entering the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> install -s mvn:org.apache.camel/camel-example-cxf-proxy/2.17.0.redhat-630xxx
JBossFuse:karaf@root> install -s mvn:org.apache.camel/camel-example-cxf-proxy/2.17.0.redhat-630xxxNote
In this case, it is preferable to deploy the bundle directly using
install, rather than using hot deploy, so that you can see the bundle output on the console screen.
If you have any difficulty using the
mvn URL handler, see section "Mvn URL Handler" in "Deploying into Apache Karaf" for details of how to set it up.
Check the console output
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After the bundle is successfully deployed, you should see output like the following in the console window:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> Starting real web service... Started real web service at: http://localhost:9081/real-webservice
JBossFuse:karaf@root> Starting real web service...
Started real web service at: http://localhost:9081/real-webservice7.4. Securing the Web Services Client
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In the basic Camel CXF proxy demonstration, the Web services client is actually implemented as a JUnit test under the
src/test directory. This means that the client can easily be run using the Maven command, mvn test. To enable SSL/TLS security on the client, the Java implementation of the test client is completely replaced and a Spring file, containing the SSL/TLS configuration, is added to the src/test/resources/META-INF/spring directory. Before describing the steps you need to perform to set up the client, this section explains some details of the client's Java code and Spring configuration.
Implicit configuration
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Apart from changing the URL scheme on the endpoint address to
https:, most of the configuration to enable SSL/TLS security on a client proxy is contained in a http:conduit element in Spring configuration. The way in which this configuration is applied to the client proxy, however, is potentially confusing, for the following reason: the http:conduit element does not explicitly reference the client proxy and the client proxy does not explicitly reference the http:conduit element. The connection between the http:conduit element and the client proxy is established implicitly, in that they both reference the same WSDL port, as illustrated by Figure 7.3, “Client Proxy Implicitly Configured by http:conduit Element”.
Figure 7.3. Client Proxy Implicitly Configured by http:conduit Element
The connection between the client proxy and the
http:conduit element is established as follows:
- The client loads and parses the Spring configuration file containing the
http:conduitelement. - When the
http:conduitbean is created, a corresponding entry is created in the registry, which stores a reference to the bean under the specified WSDL port name (where the name is stored in QName format). - When the JAX-WS client proxy is created, it scans the registry to see if it can find a
http:conduitbean associated with the proxy's WSDL port name. If it finds such a bean, it automatically injects the configuration details into the proxy.
Certificates needed on the client side
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The client is configured with the following
clientKeystore.jks keystore file from the src/main/resources/certs directory. This keystore contains two entries, as follows:
- Trusted cert entry
- A trusted certificate entry containing the CA certificate that issued and signed both the server certificate and the client certificate.
- Private key entry
- A private key entry containing the client's own X.509 certificate and private key. In fact, this certificate is not strictly necessary to run the current example, because the server does not require the client to send a certificate during the TLS handshake (see Example 7.2, “httpj:engine-factory Element with SSL/TLS Enabled”).
Loading Spring definitions into the client
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The example client is not deployed directly into a Spring container, but it requires some Spring definitions in order to define a secure HTTP conduit. So how can you create the Spring definitions without a Spring container? It turns out that it is easy to read Spring definitions into a Java-based client using the
org.apache.cxf.bus.spring.SpringBusFactory class.
The following code shows how to read Spring definitions from the file,
META-INF/spring/cxf-client.xml, and create an Apache CXF Bus object that incorporates those definitions:
Creating the client proxy
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In principle, there are several different ways of creating a WSDL proxy: you could use the JAX-WS API to create a proxy based on the contents of a WSDL file; you could use the JAX-WS API to create a proxy without a WSDL file; or you could use the Apache CXF-specific class,
JaxWsProxyFactoryBean, to create a proxy.
For this SSL/TLS client, the most convenient approach is to use the JAX-WS API to create a proxy without using a WSDL file, as shown in the following Java sample:
Note
In this example, you cannot use the
JaxWsProxyFactoryBean approach to create a proxy, because a proxy created in this way fails to find the HTTP conduit settings specified in the Spring configuration file.
The
SERVICE_NAME and PORT_NAME constants are the QNames of the WSDL service and the WSDL port respectively, as defined in Example 7.1, “The ReportIncidentEndpointService WSDL Service”. The ADDRESS_URL string has the same value as the proxy Web service address and is defined as follows:
private static final String ADDRESS_URL = "https://localhost:9080/camel-example-cxf-proxy/webservices/incident";
private static final String ADDRESS_URL =
"https://localhost:9080/camel-example-cxf-proxy/webservices/incident";
In particular, note that the address must be defined with the URL scheme,
https, which selects HTTP over SSL/TLS.
Steps to add SSL/TLS security to the client
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To define a JAX-WS client with SSL/TLS security enabled, perform the following steps:
Create the Java client as a test case
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Example 7.3, “ReportIncidentRoutesTest Java client” shows the complete code for a Java client that is implemented as a JUnit test case. This client replaces the existing test,
ReportIncidentRoutesTest.java, in the src/test/java/org/apache/camel/example/reportincident sub-directory of the examples/camel-example-cxf-proxy demonstration.
To add the client to the
CamelInstallDir/examples/camel-example-cxf-proxy demonstration, go to the src/test/java/org/apache/camel/example/reportincident sub-directory, move the existing ReportIncidentRoutesTest.java file to a backup location, then create a new ReportIncidentRoutesTest.java file and paste the code from Example 7.3, “ReportIncidentRoutesTest Java client” into this file.
Example 7.3. ReportIncidentRoutesTest Java client
Add the http:conduit element to Spring configuration
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Example 7.4, “http:conduit Element with SSL/TLS Enabled” shows the Spring configuration that defines a
http:conduit element for the ReportIncidentEndpoint WSDL port. The http:conduit element is configured to enable SSL/TLS security for any client proxies that use the specified WSDL port.
To add the Spring configuration to the client test case, create the
src/test/resources/META-INF/spring sub-directory, use your favorite text editor to create the file, cxf-client.xml, and then paste the contents of Example 7.4, “http:conduit Element with SSL/TLS Enabled” into the file.
Example 7.4. http:conduit Element with SSL/TLS Enabled
Please note the following points about the preceding configuration:
- The
http:andsec:namespace prefixes are needed to define thehttp:conduitelement. In thexsi:schemaLocationelement, it is also essential to specify the locations of the correspondinghttp://cxf.apache.org/configuration/securityandhttp://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configurationnamespaces. - The
disableCNCheckattribute of thehttp:tlsClientParameterselement is set totrue. This means that the client does not check whether the Common Name in the server's X.509 certificate matches the server hostname. For more details, see Appendix A, Managing Certificates.ImportantDisabling the CN check is not recommended in a production deployment. - In the
sec:keystoreelements, the certificate locations are specified using theresourceattribute, which finds the certificates on the classpath. When Maven runs the test, it automatically makes the contents ofsrc/main/resourcesavailable on the classpath, so that the certificates can be read from thesrc/main/resources/certsdirectory.NoteYou also have the option of specifying a certificate location using thefileattribute, which looks in the filesystem. But theresourceattribute is more suitable for use with applications packaged in bundles. - The
sec:cipherSuitesFilterelement is configured to exclude cipher suites matching.*_WITH_NULL_.*and.*_DH_anon_.*. These cipher suites are effectively incomplete and are not intended for normal use.ImportantIt is recommended that you always exclude the ciphers matching.*_WITH_NULL_.*and.*_DH_anon_.*. - The
secureSocketProtocolattribute should be set to TLSv1, to match the server protocol and to ensure that the SSLv3 protocol is not used (POODLE security vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)).
Run the client
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Because the client is defined as a test case, you can run the client using the standard Maven test goal. To run the client, open a new command window, change directory to
CamelInstallDir/examples/camel-example-cxf-proxy, and enter the following Maven command:
mvn test
mvn test
If the test runs successfully, you should see the following output in the OSGi console window:
Incident was 123, changed to 456 Invoked real web service: id=456 by Claus Ibsen
Incident was 123, changed to 456
Invoked real web service: id=456 by Claus IbsenChapter 8. Securing the Management Console
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Abstract
The default setting for
Access-Control-Allow-Origin header for the JBoss Fuse Management Console permits unrestricted sharing. To restrict access to the JBoss Fuse Management Console, create an access management file which contains a list of the allowed origin URLs. To implement the restrictions, add a system property that references the access management file
8.1. Controlling Access to the Fuse Management Console
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Create an access management file called
access-management.xml in <installDir>/etc/. The access management file must contain <allow-origin> sections within a <cors> section. The <allow-origin> section can contain the origin URL provided by browsers with the Origin: header, or a wildcard specification with *. For example:
Add the following line to JBoss Fuse config script
./bin/setenv, adding the path to the access management file.
export EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS='-Djolokia.policyLocation=file:etc/access-management.xml'
export EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS='-Djolokia.policyLocation=file:etc/access-management.xml'
When the command
./bin/fuse is executed, the access management file is referenced and used to restrict access to the JBoss Fuse Management Console.
Chapter 9. LDAP Authentication Tutorial
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Abstract
This tutorial explains how to set up an X.500 directory server and configure the OSGi container to use LDAP authentication.
9.1. Tutorial Overview
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Goals
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In this tutorial you will:
- Install 389 Directory Server
- Add user entries to the LDAP server
- Add groups to manage security roles
- Configure JBoss Fuse to use LDAP authentication
- Configure JBoss Fuse to use roles for authorization
- Configure SSL/TLS connections to the LDAP server
9.2. Set-up a Directory Server and Console
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Overview
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This stage of the tutorial explains how to install the X.500 directory server and the management console from the Fedora 389 Directory Server project. If you already have access to a 389 Directory Server instance, you can skip the instructions for installing the 389 Directory Server and install the 389 Management Console instead.
Prerequisites
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If you are installing on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, you must first install the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). See the installation notes under RHEL/Cent OS/ EPEL ( RHEL 6, RHEL 7, Cent OS 6, Cent OSý7) on the
fedoraproject.org site.
Install 389 Directory Server
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If you do not have access to an existing 389 Directory Server instance, you can install 389 Directory Server on your local machine, as follows:
- On Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora platforms, use the standard
yumpackage management utility to install 389 Directory Server. Enter the following command at a command prompt (you must have administrator privileges on your machine):sudo yum install 389-ds
sudo yum install 389-dsCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow NoteThe required389-dsand389-consoleRPM packages are available for Fedora, RHEL6+EPEL, and CentOS7+EPEL platforms. At the time of writing, the389-consolepackage is not yet available for RHEL 7. - After installing the 389 directory server packages, enter the following command to configure the directory server:
sudo setup-ds-admin.pl
sudo setup-ds-admin.plCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow The script is interactive and prompts you to provide the basic configuration settings for the 389 directory server. When the script is complete, it automatically launches the 389 directory server in the background. - For more details about how to install 389 Directory Server, see the Download page.
Install 389 Management Console
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If you already have access to a 389 Directory Server instance, you only need to install the 389 Management Console, which enables you to log in and manage the server remotely. You can install the 389 Management Console, as follows:
- On Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora platforms—use the standard
yumpackage management utility to install the 389 Management Console. Enter the following command at a command prompt (you must have administrator privileges on your machine):sudo yum install 389-console
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Connect the console to the server
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To connect the 389 Directory Server Console to the LDAP server:
- Enter the following command to start up the 389 Management Console:
389-console
389-consoleCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - A login dialog appears. Fill in the LDAP login credentials in the User ID and Password fields, and customize the hostname in the Administration URL field to connect to your 389 management server instance (port
9830is the default port for the 389 management server instance). - The 389 Management Console window appears. Select the Servers and Applications tab.
- In the left-hand pane, drill down to the Directory Server icon.
- Select the Directory Server icon in the left-hand pane and click Open, to open the 389 Directory Server Console.
- In the 389 Directory Server Console, click the Directory tab, to view the Directory Information Tree (DIT).
- Expand the root node,
YourDomain(usually named after a hostname, and shown aslocaldomainin the following screenshot), to view the DIT.
9.3. Add User Entries to the Directory Server
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Overview
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The basic prerequisite for using LDAP authentication with the OSGi container is to have an X.500 directory server running and configured with a collection of user entries. For many use cases, you will also want to configure a number of groups to manage user roles.
Alternative to adding user entries
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If you already have user entries and groups defined in your LDAP server, you might prefer to map the existing LDAP groups to JAAS roles using the
roles.mapping property in the LDAPLoginModule configuration, instead of creating new entries. For details, see Section 2.1.7, “JAAS LDAP Login Module”.
Goals
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In this portion of the tutorial you will
Adding user entries
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Perform the following steps to add user entries to the directory server:
- Ensure that the LDAP server and console are running. See Section 9.2, “Set-up a Directory Server and Console”.
- In the Directory Server Console, click on the Directory tab, and drill down to the People node, under the
YourDomainnode (whereYourDomainis shown aslocaldomainin the following screenshots). - Right-click the People node, and select → from the context menu, to open the Create New User dialog.
- Select the tab in the left-hand pane of the Create New User dialog.
- Fill in the fields of the User tab, as follows:
- Set the First Name field to
John. - Set the Last Name field to
Doe. - Set the User ID field to
jdoe. - Enter the password,
secret, in the Password field. - Enter the password,
secret, in the Confirm Password field.
- Click .
- In Step 5.e, use
janedoefor the new user's User ID and use the password,secret, for the password fields. - In Step 5.e, use
criderfor the new user's User ID and use the password,secret, for the password fields.
Adding groups for the roles
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To add the groups that define the roles:
- In the Directory tab of the Directory Server Console, drill down to the Groups node, under the
YourDomainnode. - Right-click the Groups node, and select → from the context menu, to open the Create New Group dialog.
- Select the tab in the left-hand pane of the Create New Group dialog.
- Fill in the fields of the General tab, as follows:
- Set the Group Name field to
Administrator. - Optionally, enter a description in the Description field.
- Select the tab in the left-hand pane of the Create New Group dialog.
- Click Add to open the Search users and groups dialog.
- In the Search field, select
Usersfrom the drop-down menu, and click the Search button. - From the list of users that is now displayed, select
John Doe. - Click , to close the Search users and groups dialog.
- Click , to close the Create New Group dialog.
- In Step 8, select
Jane Doe. - In Step 8, select
Camel Rider.
9.4. Enable LDAP Authentication in the OSGi Container
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Overview
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This section explains how to configure an LDAP realm in the OSGi container. The new realm overrides the default
karaf realm, so that the container authenticates credentials based on user entries stored in the X.500 directory server.
References
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More detailed documentation is available on LDAP authentication, as follows:
- LDAPLoginModule options—are described in detail in Section 2.1.7, “JAAS LDAP Login Module”.
- Configurations for other directory servers—this tutorial covers only 389-DS. For details of how to configure other directory servers, such as Microsoft Active Directory, see the section called “Filter settings for different directory servers”.
Procedure for standalone OSGi container
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To enable LDAP authentication in a standalone OSGi container:
- Ensure that the X.500 directory server is running.
- Start Red Hat JBoss Fuse by entering the following command in a terminal window:
./bin/fuse
./bin/fuseCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create a file called
ldap-module.xml. - Copy Example 9.1, “JAAS Realm for Standalone” into
ldap-module.xml.Example 9.1. JAAS Realm for Standalone
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You must customize the following settings in theldap-module.xmlfile:- connection.url
- Set this URL to the actual location of your directory server instance. Normally, this URL has the format,
ldap://Hostname:Port. For example, the default port for the 389 Directory Server is IP port389. - connection.username
- Specifies the username that is used to authenticate the connection to the directory server. For 389 Directory Server, the default is usually
cn=Directory Manager. - connection.password
- Specifies the password part of the credentials for connecting to the directory server.
- authentication
- You can specify either of the following alternatives for the authentication protocol:
simpleimplies that user credentials are supplied and you are obliged to set theconnection.usernameandconnection.passwordoptions in this case.noneimplies that authentication is not performed. There is no need to set theconnection.usernameandconnection.passwordoptions in this case.
This login module creates a JAAS realm calledkaraf, which is the same name as the default JAAS realm used by JBoss Fuse. By redefining this realm with arankattribute value greater than0, it overrides the standardkarafrealm which has the rank0(but note that in the context of Fabric, the defaultkarafrealm has a rank of99, so you need to define a new realm with rank100or greater to override the default realm in a fabric).For more details about how to configure JBoss Fuse to use LDAP, see Section 2.1.7, “JAAS LDAP Login Module”.ImportantWhen setting the JAAS properties above, do not enclose the property values in double quotes. - To deploy the new LDAP module, copy the
ldap-module.xmlinto the JBoss Fusedeploy/directory.The LDAP module is automatically activated.NoteSubsequently, if you need to undeploy the LDAP module, you can do so by deleting theldap-module.xmlfile from thedeploy/directory while the Karaf container is running.
Procedure for a Fabric
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To enable LDAP authentication in a Fabric (affecting all of the containers in the current fabric):
- Ensure that the X.500 directory server is running.
- If your local Fabric container is not already running, start it now, by entering the following command in a terminal window:
./bin/fuse
./bin/fuseCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow NoteIf the Fabric container you want to connect to is running on a remote host, you can connect to it using theclientcommand-line utility in theInstallDir/bindirectory. - Create a new version of the Fabric profile data, by entering the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> version-create Created version: 1.1 as copy of: 1.0
JBossFuse:karaf@root> version-create Created version: 1.1 as copy of: 1.0Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow NoteIn effect, this command creates a new branch named1.1in the Git repository underlying the ZooKeeper registry. - Create the new profile resource,
ldap-module.xml(a Blueprint configuration file), in version1.1of thedefaultprofile, as follows:JBossFuse:karaf@root> profile-edit --resource ldap-module.xml default 1.1
JBossFuse:karaf@root> profile-edit --resource ldap-module.xml default 1.1Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow The built-in profile editor opens automatically, which you can use to edit the contents of theldap-module.xmlresource. - Copy Example 9.2, “JAAS Realm for Fabric” into the
ldap-module.xmlresource, customizing the configuration properties, as necessary.Example 9.2. JAAS Realm for Fabric
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You must customize the following settings in theldap-module.xmlfile:- connection.url
- Set this URL to the actual location of your directory server instance. Normally, this URL has the format,
ldap://Hostname:Port. You must be sure to use a hostname that is accessible to all of the containers in the fabric (hence, you cannot uselocalhostas the hostname here). The default port for the 389 Directory Server is IP port389. - connection.username
- Specifies the username that is used to authenticate the connection to the directory server. For 389 Directory Server, the default is usually
cn=Directory Manager. - connection.password
- Specifies the password part of the credentials for connecting to the directory server.
- authentication
- You can specify either of the following alternatives for the authentication protocol:
simpleimplies that user credentials are supplied and you are obliged to set theconnection.usernameandconnection.passwordoptions in this case.noneimplies that authentication is not performed. There is no need to set theconnection.usernameandconnection.passwordoptions in this case.
This login module creates a JAAS realm calledkaraf, which is the same name as the default JAAS realm used by Red Hat JBoss Fuse. By redefining this realm with arankof200, it overrides all of the previously installedkarafrealms (in the context of Fabric, you need to override the defaultZookeeperLoginModule, which has a rank of99).ImportantPay particular attention to the value of therankto ensure that it is higher than all previously installedkarafrealms. If therankis not sufficiently high, the new realm will not be used by the fabric.ImportantWhen setting the JAAS properties above, do not enclose the property values in double quotes.ImportantIn a Fabric, the Zookeeper login module must be enabled, in addition to the LDAP login module. This is because Fabric uses the Zookeeper login module internally, to support authentication between ensemble servers. With the configuration shown here, Fabric tries to authenticate first of all against the Zookeeper login module and, if that step fails, it tries to authenticate against the LDAP login module. - Save and close the
ldap-module.xmlresource by typing Ctrl-S and Ctrl-X. - Edit the agent properties of version 1.1 of the
defaultprofile, adding an instruction to deploy the Blueprint resource file defined in the previous step. Enter the following console command:JBossFuse:karaf@root> profile-edit default 1.1
JBossFuse:karaf@root> profile-edit default 1.1Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow The built-in profile editor opens automatically. Add the following line to the agent properties:bundle.ldap-realm=blueprint:profile:ldap-module.xml
bundle.ldap-realm=blueprint:profile:ldap-module.xmlCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Save and close the agent properties by typing Ctrl-S and Ctrl-X. - The new LDAP realm is not activated, until you upgrade a container to use the new version,
1.1. To activate LDAP on a single container (for example, on a container calledroot), enter the following console command:JBossFuse:karaf@root> container-upgrade 1.1 root
JBossFuse:karaf@root> container-upgrade 1.1 rootCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow To activate LDAP on all containers in the fabric, enter the following console command:JBossFuse:karaf@root> container-upgrade --all 1.1
JBossFuse:karaf@root> container-upgrade --all 1.1Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow ImportantIt is advisable to upgrade just a single container initially, to make sure that everything is working properly. This is particularly important, if you have only remote access to the fabric: if you upgrade all of the containers at once, you might not be able to reconnect to the fabric. - To check that the LDAP realm is activated, enter the following console command:
JBossFuse:karaf@root> jaas-realms Index Realm Module Class 1 karaf org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.ldap.LDAPLoginModuleJBossFuse:karaf@root> jaas-realms Index Realm Module Class 1 karaf org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.ldap.LDAPLoginModuleCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow If the output of this command lists theZookeperLoginModule, this means the LDAP realm is not yet activated. It might take a minute or so for activation of the LDAP realm to complete.
Test the LDAP authentication
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Test the new LDAP realm by connecting to the running container using the JBoss Fuse
client utility, as follows:
- Open a new command prompt.
- Change directory to the JBoss Fuse
InstallDir/bindirectory. - Enter the following command to log on to the running container instance using the identity
jdoe:client -u jdoe -p secret
client -u jdoe -p secretCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You should successfully log into the container's remote console. At the command console, typejaas:followed by the [Tab] key (to activate content completion):Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You should see thatjdoehas access to all of thejaascommands (which is consistent with theAdministratorrole). - Log off the remote console by entering the logout command.
- Enter the following command to log on to the running container instance using the identity
janedoe:client -u janedoe -p secret
client -u janedoe -p secretCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You should successfully log into the container's remote console. At the command console, typejaas:followed by the [Tab] key (to activate content completion):Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You should see thatjanedoehas access to almost all of thejaascommands, except forjaas:update(which is consistent with theDeployerrole). - Log off the remote console by entering the logout command.
- Enter the following command to log on to the running container instance using the identity
crider:client -u crider -p secret
client -u crider -p secretCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You should successfully log into the container's remote console. At the command console, typejaas:followed by the [Tab] key (to activate content completion):JBossFuse:janedoe@root> jaas: jaas:groupcreate jaas:groups jaas:realms
JBossFuse:janedoe@root> jaas: jaas:groupcreate jaas:groups jaas:realmsCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You should see thatcriderhas access to only three of thejaascommands (which is consistent with theMonitorrole). - Log off the remote console by entering the logout command.
9.5. Enable SSL/TLS on the LDAP Connection
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Overview
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This tutorial explains how to enable SSL/TLS security on the connection between the LDAP login module and the Apache Directory Server.
The Apache Directory Server is already configured with an SSL endpoint. The default configuration creates an LDAPS endpoint that listens on the IP port
10636. The directory server automatically generates a self-signed X.509 certificate which it uses to identify itself during the SSL/TLS handshake.
Important
You can use the default SSL configuration for simple demonstrations, but it is not suitable for real deployments. For advice on how to configure a real deployment, see the section called “Tightening up security”.
Procedure
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To enable SSL/TLS security on the connection to the Apache Directory Server:
- Obtain a copy of the server's self-signed certificate.
- Using a Web browser , navigate to the following URL:
https://localhost:10636
https://localhost:10636Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow ImportantRemember to specify the scheme ashttps, not justhttp.The Web browser now signals an error, because the certificate it receives from the server is untrusted. In the case of Firefox, you will see the following error in the browser window:Figure 9.1. Obtaining the Certificate
- Click I Understand the Risks.
- Click Add Exception.The Add Security Exception dialog opens.
- In the Add Security Exception dialog, click .
- Click .The Certificate Viewer dialog opens.
- In the Certificate Viewer dialog, select the Details tab.
- Click .The Save Certificate To File dialog opens.
- In the Save Certificate To File dialog, use the drop-down list to set the Save as type to X.509 Certificate (DER).
- Save the certificate,
ApacheDS.der, to a convenient location on the filesystem.
- Convert the DER format certificate into a keystore.
- From a command prompt, change directory to the directory where you have stored the
ApacheDS.derfile. - Enter the following
keytoolcommand:keytool -import -file ApacheDS.der -alias server -keystore truststore.ks -storepass secret
keytool -import -file ApacheDS.der -alias server -keystore truststore.ks -storepass secretCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow
- Copy the newly created keystore file,
truststore.ks, into the JBoss Fuseetc/directory. - Open the
ldap-module.xmlfile you created in Section 9.4, “Enable LDAP Authentication in the OSGi Container” in a text editor. - Edit the connection.url to use ldaps://localhost:10636.
- Add the highlighted lines in Example 9.3, “LDAP Configuration for Using SSL/TLS”.
Example 9.3. LDAP Configuration for Using SSL/TLS
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Copy the
ldap-module.xmlfile into the Red Hat JBoss Fusedeploy/directory.The LDAP module is automatically activated. - Test the new LDAP realm by connecting to the running container using the JBoss Fuse
clientutility.- Open a new command prompt.
- Change to the JBoss Fuse install directory.
- Enter the following command to log on to the running container instance using the identity
jdoe:client -u jdoe -p secret
client -u jdoe -p secretCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You should successfully log into the container's remote console becausejdoedoes have theadminrole.
Tightening up security
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The SSL set-up described here is suitable only as a proof-of-concept demonstration. For a real deployment, you must make the following changes to tighten up security:
- Delete all entries from the Red Hat JBoss Fuse's
etc/users.propertiesfile.If theldap-module.xmlbundle fails to start up properly, JAAS authentication reverts to the built-in file-basedkarafrealm, which takes its user data from theusers.propertiesfile. - Disable the insecure LDAP endpoint on the Apache Directory Server.
- Create and deploy a properly signed X.509 certificate on the Apache Directory Server.
- Make sure that the LDAP server is configured to use the TLSv1 protocol (POODLE vulnerability). Do not enable the SSLv3 protocol. For more information, see Poodle vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566).
Apache Directory Server Reference
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For more details of how to configure SSL/TLS security on the Apache Directory Server, see How to enable SSL.
Appendix A. Managing Certificates
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Abstract
TLS authentication uses X.509 certificates—a common, secure and reliable method of authenticating your application objects. You can create X.509 certificates that identify your Red Hat JBoss Fuse applications.
A.1. What is an X.509 Certificate?
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Role of certificates
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An X.509 certificate binds a name to a public key value. The role of the certificate is to associate a public key with the identity contained in the X.509 certificate.
Integrity of the public key
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Authentication of a secure application depends on the integrity of the public key value in the application's certificate. If an impostor replaces the public key with its own public key, it can impersonate the true application and gain access to secure data.
To prevent this type of attack, all certificates must be signed by a certification authority (CA). A CA is a trusted node that confirms the integrity of the public key value in a certificate.
Digital signatures
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A CA signs a certificate by adding its digital signature to the certificate. A digital signature is a message encoded with the CA’s private key. The CA’s public key is made available to applications by distributing a certificate for the CA. Applications verify that certificates are validly signed by decoding the CA’s digital signature with the CA’s public key.
Warning
The supplied demonstration certificates are self-signed certificates. These certificates are insecure because anyone can access their private key. To secure your system, you must create new certificates signed by a trusted CA.
Contents of an X.509 certificate
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An X.509 certificate contains information about the certificate subject and the certificate issuer (the CA that issued the certificate). A certificate is encoded in Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1), a standard syntax for describing messages that can be sent or received on a network.
The role of a certificate is to associate an identity with a public key value. In more detail, a certificate includes:
- A subject distinguished name (DN) that identifies the certificate owner.
- The public key associated with the subject.
- X.509 version information.
- A serial number that uniquely identifies the certificate.
- An issuer DN that identifies the CA that issued the certificate.
- The digital signature of the issuer.
- Information about the algorithm used to sign the certificate.
- Some optional X.509 v.3 extensions; for example, an extension exists that distinguishes between CA certificates and end-entity certificates.
Distinguished names
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A DN is a general purpose X.500 identifier that is often used in the context of security.
See Appendix B, ASN.1 and Distinguished Names for more details about DNs.
A.2. Certification Authorities
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A.2.1. Introduction to Certificate Authorities
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A CA consists of a set of tools for generating and managing certificates and a database that contains all of the generated certificates. When setting up a system, it is important to choose a suitable CA that is sufficiently secure for your requirements.
There are two types of CA you can use:
- commercial CAs are companies that sign certificates for many systems.
- private CAs are trusted nodes that you set up and use to sign certificates for your system only.
A.2.2. Commercial Certification Authorities
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Signing certificates
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There are several commercial CAs available. The mechanism for signing a certificate using a commercial CA depends on which CA you choose.
Advantages of commercial CAs
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An advantage of commercial CAs is that they are often trusted by a large number of people. If your applications are designed to be available to systems external to your organization, use a commercial CA to sign your certificates. If your applications are for use within an internal network, a private CA might be appropriate.
Criteria for choosing a CA
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Before choosing a commercial CA, consider the following criteria:
- What are the certificate-signing policies of the commercial CAs?
- Are your applications designed to be available on an internal network only?
- What are the potential costs of setting up a private CA compared to the costs of subscribing to a commercial CA?
A.2.3. Private Certification Authorities
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Choosing a CA software package
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If you want to take responsibility for signing certificates for your system, set up a private CA. To set up a private CA, you require access to a software package that provides utilities for creating and signing certificates. Several packages of this type are available.
OpenSSL software package
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One software package that allows you to set up a private CA is OpenSSL, http://www.openssl.org. The OpenSSL package includes basic command line utilities for generating and signing certificates. Complete documentation for the OpenSSL command line utilities is available at http://www.openssl.org/docs.
Setting up a private CA using OpenSSL
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To set up a private CA, see the instructions in Section A.5, “Creating Your Own Certificates”.
Choosing a host for a private certification authority
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Choosing a host is an important step in setting up a private CA. The level of security associated with the CA host determines the level of trust associated with certificates signed by the CA.
If you are setting up a CA for use in the development and testing of Red Hat JBoss Fuse applications, use any host that the application developers can access. However, when you create the CA certificate and private key, do not make the CA private key available on any hosts where security-critical applications run.
Security precautions
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If you are setting up a CA to sign certificates for applications that you are going to deploy, make the CA host as secure as possible. For example, take the following precautions to secure your CA:
- Do not connect the CA to a network.
- Restrict all access to the CA to a limited set of trusted users.
- Use an RF-shield to protect the CA from radio-frequency surveillance.
A.3. Certificate Chaining
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Certificate chain
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A certificate chain is a sequence of certificates, where each certificate in the chain is signed by the subsequent certificate.
Figure A.1, “A Certificate Chain of Depth 2” shows an example of a simple certificate chain.
Figure A.1. A Certificate Chain of Depth 2
Self-signed certificate
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The last certificate in the chain is normally a self-signed certificate—a certificate that signs itself.
Chain of trust
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The purpose of a certificate chain is to establish a chain of trust from a peer certificate to a trusted CA certificate. The CA vouches for the identity in the peer certificate by signing it. If the CA is one that you trust (indicated by the presence of a copy of the CA certificate in your root certificate directory), this implies you can trust the signed peer certificate as well.
Certificates signed by multiple CAs
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A CA certificate can be signed by another CA. For example, an application certificate could be signed by the CA for the finance department of Progress Software, which in turn is signed by a self-signed commercial CA.
Figure A.2, “A Certificate Chain of Depth 3” shows what this certificate chain looks like.
Figure A.2. A Certificate Chain of Depth 3
Trusted CAs
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An application can accept a peer certificate, provided it trusts at least one of the CA certificates in the signing chain.
A.4. Special Requirements on HTTPS Certificates
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Overview
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The HTTPS specification mandates that HTTPS clients must be capable of verifying the identity of the server. This can potentially affect how you generate your X.509 certificates. The mechanism for verifying the server identity depends on the type of client. Some clients might verify the server identity by accepting only those server certificates signed by a particular trusted CA. In addition, clients can inspect the contents of a server certificate and accept only the certificates that satisfy specific constraints.
In the absence of an application-specific mechanism, the HTTPS specification defines a generic mechanism, known as the HTTPS URL integrity check, for verifying the server identity. This is the standard mechanism used by Web browsers.
HTTPS URL integrity check
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The basic idea of the URL integrity check is that the server certificate's identity must match the server host name. This integrity check has an important impact on how you generate X.509 certificates for HTTPS: the certificate identity (usually the certificate subject DN’s common name) must match the host name on which the HTTPS server is deployed.
The URL integrity check is designed to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
Reference
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The HTTPS URL integrity check is specified by RFC 2818, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2818.txt.
How to specify the certificate identity
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The certificate identity used in the URL integrity check can be specified in one of the following ways:
Using commonName
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The usual way to specify the certificate identity (for the purpose of the URL integrity check) is through the Common Name (CN) in the subject DN of the certificate.
For example, if a server supports secure TLS connections at the following URL:
https://www.redhat.com/secure
https://www.redhat.com/secure
The corresponding server certificate would have the following subject DN:
C=IE,ST=Co. Dublin,L=Dublin,O=RedHat, OU=System,CN=www.redhat.com
C=IE,ST=Co. Dublin,L=Dublin,O=RedHat,
OU=System,CN=www.redhat.com
Where the CN has been set to the host name,
www.redhat.com.
For details of how to set the subject DN in a new certificate, see Section A.5, “Creating Your Own Certificates”.
Using subjectAltName (multi-homed hosts)
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Using the subject DN’s Common Name for the certificate identity has the disadvantage that only one host name can be specified at a time. If you deploy a certificate on a multi-homed host, however, you might find it is practical to allow the certificate to be used with any of the multi-homed host names. In this case, it is necessary to define a certificate with multiple, alternative identities, and this is only possible using the
subjectAltName certificate extension.
For example, if you have a multi-homed host that supports connections to either of the following host names:
www.redhat.com www.jboss.org
www.redhat.com
www.jboss.org
Then you can define a
subjectAltName that explicitly lists both of these DNS host names. If you generate your certificates using the openssl utility, edit the relevant line of your openssl.cnf configuration file to specify the value of the subjectAltName extension, as follows:
subjectAltName=DNS:www.redhat.com,DNS:www.jboss.org
subjectAltName=DNS:www.redhat.com,DNS:www.jboss.org
Where the HTTPS protocol matches the server host name against either of the DNS host names listed in the
subjectAltName (the subjectAltName takes precedence over the Common Name).
The HTTPS protocol also supports the wildcard character,
*, in host names. For example, you can define the subjectAltName as follows:
subjectAltName=DNS:*.jboss.org
subjectAltName=DNS:*.jboss.org
This certificate identity matches any three-component host name in the domain jboss.org.
Warning
You must never use the wildcard character in the domain name (and you must take care never to do this accidentally by forgetting to type the dot,
., delimiter in front of the domain name). For example, if you specified *jboss.org, your certificate could be used on any domain that ends in the letters jboss.
A.5. Creating Your Own Certificates
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Abstract
This chapter describes the techniques and procedures to set up your own private Certificate Authority (CA) and to use this CA to generate and sign your own certificates.
Warning
Creating and managing your own certificates requires an expert knowledge of security. While the procedures described in this chapter can be convenient for generating your own certificates for demonstration and testing environments, it is not recommended to use these certificates in a production environment.
A.5.1. Install the OpenSSL Utilities
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Installing OpenSSL on RHEL and Fedora platforms
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On Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 and Fedora platforms, are made available as an RPM package. To install OpenSSL, enter the following command (executed with administrator privileges):
yum install openssl
yum install opensslSource code distribution
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The source distribution of OpenSSL is available from http://www.openssl.org/docs. The OpenSSL project provides source code distributions only. You cannot download a binary install of the OpenSSL utilities from the OpenSSL Web site.
A.5.2. Set Up a Private Certificate Authority
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Overview
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If you choose to use a private CA you need to generate your own certificates for your applications to use. The OpenSSL project provides free command-line utilities for setting up a private CA, creating signed certificates, and adding the CA to your Java keystore.
Warning
Setting up a private CA for a production environment requires a high level of expertise and extra care must be taken to protect the certificate store from external threats.
Steps to set up a private Certificate Authority
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To set up your own private Certificate Authority:
- Create the directory structure for the CA, as follows:
X509CA/demoCA X509CA/demoCA/private X509CA/demoCA/certs X509CA/demoCA/newcerts X509CA/demoCA/crl
X509CA/demoCA X509CA/demoCA/private X509CA/demoCA/certs X509CA/demoCA/newcerts X509CA/demoCA/crlCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Using a text editor, create the file,
X509CA/openssl.cfg, and add the following contents to this file:Example A.1. OpenSSL Configuration
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow ImportantThe precedingopenssl.cfgconfiguration file is provided as a demonstration only. In a production environment, this configuration file would need to be carefully elaborated by an engineer with a high level of security expertise, and actively maintained to protect against evolving security threats. - Initialize the
demoCA/serialfile, which must have the initial contents01(zero one). Enter the following command:echo 01 > demoCA/serial
echo 01 > demoCA/serialCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Initialize the
demoCA/index.txt, which must initially be completely empty. Enter the following command:touch demoCA/index.txt
touch demoCA/index.txtCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Create a new self-signed CA certificate and private key with the command:
openssl req -x509 -new -config openssl.cfg -days 365 -out demoCA/cacert.pem -keyout demoCA/private/cakey.pem
openssl req -x509 -new -config openssl.cfg -days 365 -out demoCA/cacert.pem -keyout demoCA/private/cakey.pemCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You are prompted for a pass phrase for the CA private key and details of the CA distinguished name as shown in Example A.2, “Creating a CA Certificate”.Example A.2. Creating a CA Certificate
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow NoteThe security of the CA depends on the security of the private key file and the private key pass phrase used in this step.You must ensure that the file names and location of the CA certificate and private key,cacert.pemandcakey.pem, are the same as the values specified inopenssl.cfg.
A.5.3. Create a CA Trust Store File
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Overview
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A trust store file is commonly required on the client side of an SSL/TLS connection, in order to verify a server's identity. A trust store file can also be used to check digital signatures (for example, to check that a signature was made using the private key corresponding to one of the trusted certificates in the trust store file).
Steps to create a CA trust store
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To add one of more CA certificates to a trust store file:
- Assemble the collection of trusted CA certificates that you want to deploy.The trusted CA certificates can be obtained from public CAs or private CAs. The trusted CA certificates can be in any format that is compatible with the Java keystore utility; for example, PEM format. All you need are the certificates themselves—the private keys and passwords are not required.
- Add a CA certificate to the trust store using the keytool -import command.Enter the following command to add the CA certificate,
cacert.pem, in PEM format, to a JKS trust store.keytool -import -file cacert.pem -alias CAAlias -keystore truststore.ts -storepass StorePass
keytool -import -file cacert.pem -alias CAAlias -keystore truststore.ts -storepass StorePassCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Wheretruststore.tsis a keystore file containing CA certificates. If this file does not already exist, the keytool command creates it. TheCAAliasis a convenient identifier for the imported CA certificate andStorePassis the password required to access the keystore file. - Repeat the previous step to add all of the CA certificates to the trust store.
A.5.4. Generate and Sign a New Certificate
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Overview
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In order for a certificate to be useful in the real world, it must be signed by a CA, which vouches for the authenticity of the certificate. This facilitates a scalable solution for certificate verification, because it means that a single CA certificate can be used to verify a large collection of certificates.
Steps to generate and sign a new certificate
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To generate and sign a new certificate, using your own private CA, perform the following steps:
- Generate a certificate and private key pair using the keytool -genkeypair command, as follows:
keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Alice, OU=Engineering, O=Red Hat, ST=Dublin, C=IE" -validity 365 -alias alice -keypass KeyPass -keystore alice.ks -storepass StorePass
keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -dname "CN=Alice, OU=Engineering, O=Red Hat, ST=Dublin, C=IE" -validity 365 -alias alice -keypass KeyPass -keystore alice.ks -storepass StorePassCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Because the specified keystore,alice.ks, did not exist prior to issuing the command implicitly creates a new keystore and sets its password toStorePass.The-dnameand-validityflags define the contents of the newly created X.509 certificate.NoteWhen specifying the certificate's Distinguished Name (through the-dnameparameter), you must be sure to observe any policy constraints specified in theopenssl.cfgfile. If those policy constraints are not heeded, you will not be able to sign the certificate using the CA (in the next steps).NoteIt is essential to generate the key pair with the-keyalg RSAoption (or a key algorithm of similar strength). The default key algorithm uses a combination of DSA encryption and SHA-1 signature. But the SHA-1 algorithm is no longer regarded as sufficiently secure and modern Web browsers will reject certificates signed using SHA-1. When you select the RSA key algorithm, thekeytoolutility uses an SHA-2 algorithm instead. - Create a certificate signing request using the keystore -certreq command.Create a new certificate signing request for the
alice.kscertificate and export it to thealice_csr.pemfile, as follows:keytool -certreq -alias alice -file alice_csr.pem -keypass KeyPass -keystore alice.ks -storepass StorePass
keytool -certreq -alias alice -file alice_csr.pem -keypass KeyPass -keystore alice.ks -storepass StorePassCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Sign the CSR using the openssl ca command.Sign the CSR for the Alice certificate, using your private CA, as follows:
openssl ca -config openssl.cfg -days 365 -in alice_csr.pem -out alice_signed.pem
openssl ca -config openssl.cfg -days 365 -in alice_csr.pem -out alice_signed.pemCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow You will prompted to enter the CA private key pass phrase you used when creating the CA (in Step 5).For more details about the openssl ca command see http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ca.html#. - Convert the signed certificate to PEM only format using the openssl x509 command with the
-outformoption set toPEM. Enter the following command:openssl x509 -in alice_signed.pem -out alice_signed.pem -outform PEM
openssl x509 -in alice_signed.pem -out alice_signed.pem -outform PEMCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Concatenate the CA certificate file and the converted, signed certificate file to form a certificate chain. For example, on Linux and UNIX platforms, you can concatenate the CA certificate file and the signed Alice certificate,
alice_signed.pem, as follows:cat demoCA/cacert.pem alice_signed.pem > alice.chain
cat demoCA/cacert.pem alice_signed.pem > alice.chainCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Import the new certificate's full certificate chain into the Java keystore using the keytool -import command. Enter the following command:
keytool -import -file alice.chain -keypass KeyPass -keystore alice.ks -storepass StorePass
keytool -import -file alice.chain -keypass KeyPass -keystore alice.ks -storepass StorePassCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow
Appendix B. ASN.1 and Distinguished Names
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The OSI Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and X.500 Distinguished Names play an important role in the security standards that define X.509 certificates and LDAP directories.
B.1. ASN.1
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Overview
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The Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) was defined by the OSI standards body in the early 1980s to provide a way of defining data types and structures that are independent of any particular machine hardware or programming language. In many ways, ASN.1 can be considered a forerunner of modern interface definition languages, such as the OMG's IDL and WSDL, which are concerned with defining platform-independent data types.
ASN.1 is important, because it is widely used in the definition of standards (for example, SNMP, X.509, and LDAP). In particular, ASN.1 is ubiquitous in the field of security standards. The formal definitions of X.509 certificates and distinguished names are described using ASN.1 syntax. You're not required to have detailed knowledge of ASN.1 syntax to use these security standards, but you need to be aware that ASN.1 is used for the basic definitions of most security-related data types.
BER
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The OSI's Basic Encoding Rules (BER) define how to translate an ASN.1 data type into a sequence of octets (binary representation). The role played by BER with respect to ASN.1 is, therefore, similar to the role played by GIOP with respect to the OMG IDL.
DER
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The OSI's Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) are a specialization of the BER. The DER consists of the BER plus some additional rules to ensure that the encoding is unique (BER encodings are not).
References
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You can read more about ASN.1 in the following standards documents:
B.2. Distinguished Names
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Overview
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Historically, distinguished names (DN) are defined as the primary keys in an X.500 directory structure. However, DNs have come to be used in many other contexts as general purpose identifiers. In Apache CXF, DNs occur in the following contexts:
- X.509 certificates—for example, one of the DNs in a certificate identifies the owner of the certificate (the security principal).
- LDAP—DNs are used to locate objects in an LDAP directory tree.
String representation of DN
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Although a DN is formally defined in ASN.1, there is also an LDAP standard that defines a UTF-8 string representation of a DN (see RFC 2253). The string representation provides a convenient basis for describing the structure of a DN.
Note
The string representation of a DN does not provide a unique representation of DER-encoded DN. Hence, a DN that is converted from string format back to DER format does not always recover the original DER encoding.
DN string example
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The following string is a typical example of a DN:
C=US,O=IONA Technologies,OU=Engineering,CN=A. N. Other
C=US,O=IONA Technologies,OU=Engineering,CN=A. N. OtherStructure of a DN string
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A DN string is built up from the following basic elements:
OID
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An OBJECT IDENTIFIER (OID) is a sequence of bytes that uniquely identifies a grammatical construct in ASN.1.
Attribute types
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The variety of attribute types that can appear in a DN is theoretically open-ended, but in practice only a small subset of attribute types are used. Table B.1, “Commonly Used Attribute Types” shows a selection of the attribute types that you are most likely to encounter:
| String Representation | X.500 Attribute Type | Size of Data | Equivalent OID |
|---|---|---|---|
|
C
|
countryName
|
2
|
2.5.4.6
|
|
O
|
organizationName
|
1...64
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2.5.4.10
|
|
OU
|
organizationalUnitName
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1...64
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2.5.4.11
|
|
CN
|
commonName
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1...64
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2.5.4.3
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| ST |
stateOrProvinceName
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1...64
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2.5.4.8
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L
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localityName
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1...64
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2.5.4.7
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STREET
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streetAddress
| ||
|
DC
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domainComponent
| ||
|
UID
|
userid
|
AVA
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An attribute value assertion (AVA) assigns an attribute value to an attribute type. In the string representation, it has the following syntax:
<attr-type>=<attr-value>
<attr-type>=<attr-value>
For example:
CN=A. N. Other
CN=A. N. Other
Alternatively, you can use the equivalent OID to identify the attribute type in the string representation (see Table B.1, “Commonly Used Attribute Types” ). For example:
2.5.4.3=A. N. Other
2.5.4.3=A. N. OtherRDN
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A relative distinguished name (RDN) represents a single node of a DN (the bit that appears between the commas in the string representation). Technically, an RDN might contain more than one AVA (it is formally defined as a set of AVAs). However, this almost never occurs in practice. In the string representation, an RDN has the following syntax:
<attr-type>=<attr-value>[+<attr-type>=<attr-value> ...]
<attr-type>=<attr-value>[+<attr-type>=<attr-value> ...]
Here is an example of a (very unlikely) multiple-value RDN:
OU=Eng1+OU=Eng2+OU=Eng3
OU=Eng1+OU=Eng2+OU=Eng3
Here is an example of a single-value RDN:
OU=Engineering
OU=EngineeringIndex
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A
- Abstract Syntax Notation One (see ASN.1)
- ASN.1, Contents of an X.509 certificate, ASN.1 and Distinguished Names
- attribute types, Attribute types
- AVA, AVA
- OID, OID
- RDN, RDN
- attribute value assertion (see AVA)
- AVA, AVA
B
- Basic Encoding Rules (see BER)
- BER, BER
C
- CA, Integrity of the public key
- choosing a host, Choosing a host for a private certification authority
- commercial CAs, Commercial Certification Authorities
- list of trusted, Trusted CAs
- multiple CAs, Certificates signed by multiple CAs
- private CAs, Private Certification Authorities
- security precautions, Security precautions
- certificates
- chaining, Certificate chain
- peer, Chain of trust
- public key, Contents of an X.509 certificate
- self-signed, Self-signed certificate
- signing, Integrity of the public key
- X.509, Role of certificates
- chaining of certificates, Certificate chain
D
- DER, DER
- Distinguished Encoding Rules (see DER)
- distinguished names
- definition, Overview
- DN
- definition, Overview
- string representation, String representation of DN
J
- JAAS
- configuration syntax, Configuring a JAAS realm
- converting to blueprint, Converting standard JAAS login properties to XML
- namespace, Namespace
- jaas:config, Configuring a JAAS realm
- jaas:module, Configuring a JAAS realm
- JMX SSL connection, enabling, Enabling Remote JMX SSL
M
- multiple CAs, Certificates signed by multiple CAs
O
- OpenSSL, OpenSSL software package
P
- peer certificate, Chain of trust
- public keys, Contents of an X.509 certificate
R
- RDN, RDN
- relative distinguished name (see RDN)
- root certificate directory, Trusted CAs
S
- self-signed certificate, Self-signed certificate
- signing certificates, Integrity of the public key
- SSLeay, OpenSSL software package
T
- trusted CAs, Trusted CAs
X
- X.500, ASN.1 and Distinguished Names
- X.509 certificate
- definition, Role of certificates
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