Tag: sso

Configuring LifeRay and CAS to work with LDAP

I saw many tutorials on CAS, Liferay and LDAP – but unfortunetly, none of them worked for me. So I decided to document what does work (at least for me).
Note that my environment is based on LifeRay 6.0.5 and CAS 3.5.1.

  1. Configure Tomcat for SSL. I have used port 443. You can read all about it here
    1. After creating the certificates, I just ended up with adding the following tag in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml
      2.  
<Connector
           port="443" maxThreads="200"
           scheme="https" secure="true" SSLEnabled="true"
           keystoreFile="/root/.keystore" keystorePass="password"
           clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"/>
    2. IMPORTANT I did not manage to make CAS work with a self signed certificate, so I’ve used a temporary free one.
  2. Configure LifeRay for LDAP
    1. Login to LifeRay
    2. Go to the Control Panel–>Settings–>Authentication–>LDAP
    3. Ensure the “Enabled” check box is selected
    4. I strongly suggest enabling the “Import” checkbox and ensure Import is enabled for server startup.
    5. Add a server
    6. Fill in the LDAP server details (it’s easy to check them with an LDAP browser like jxplorer)
    7. Save your configuration
    8. I usually restart Tomcat after that change, and view the log to see all users were successfully imported
  3. Build CAS
    1. Download CAS (I downloaded it from here)
    2. Unzip the file
    3. Edit the CAS_HOME/cas-server-webapp/pom.xml file and add the following:
      4. <dependency>
     <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId>
     <artifactId>cas-server-support-ldap</artifactId>
     <version>3.5.1</version>
</dependency>
    4. Build CAS using maven. The command to run is mvn clean install
  4. Deploy CAS
    1. Copy the newly created WAR file from CAS_HOME/cas-server-webapp/target/cas.war to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps
  5. Configure CAS for LDAP
    1. Edit the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/cas/WEB-INF/deployerConfigContext.xml
    2. Add the following at the end of the file (just before the /beans tag)
      3. <bean id="contextSource" class="org.springframework.ldap.core.support.LdapContextSource">
  <!-- DO NOT enable JNDI pooling for context sources that perform LDAP bind operations. -->
  <property name="pooled" value="false"/>
 
  <!--
    Although multiple URLs may defined, it's strongly recommended to avoid this configuration
    since the implementation attempts hosts in sequence and requires a connection timeout
    prior to attempting the next host, which incurs unacceptable latency on node failure.
    A proper HA setup for LDAP directories should use a single virtual host that maps to multiple
    real hosts using a hardware load balancer.
  -->
  <property name="url" value="ldap://LDAP_SERVER:389" />
 
  <!--
    Manager credentials are only required if your directory does not support anonymous searches.
    Never provide these credentials for FastBindLdapAuthenticationHandler since the user's
    credentials are used for the bind operation.
  -->
  <property name="userDn" value="cn=Manager"/>
  <property name="password" value="test"/>
 
  <!-- Place JNDI environment properties here. -->
  <property name="baseEnvironmentProperties">
    <map>
      <!-- Three seconds is an eternity to users. -->
      <entry key="com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.timeout" value="3000" />
      <entry key="com.sun.jndi.ldap.read.timeout" value="3000" />
 
      <!-- Explained at http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/api/javax/naming/Context.html#SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION -->
      <entry key="java.naming.security.authentication" value="simple" />
    </map>
  </property>
</bean>
    3. Add the following under the list tag of the authenticationHandlers tag
      4.       <bean class="org.jasig.cas.adaptors.ldap.BindLdapAuthenticationHandler"
p:filter="mail=%u"
p:searchBase="ou=people,dc=test,dc=com"
p:contextSource-ref="contextSource" />
                      </list>
              </property>
      </bean>
  6. Configure LifeRay for CAS
    1. Login to LifeRay
    2. Go to the Control Panel–>Settings–>Authentication–>CAS
    3. Ensure the “Enabled” check box is selected
    4. Ensure the “LDAP Import” check box is selected
    5. Enter the URLs of the CAS server
    6. Save
    7. Add the following line to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/system-ext.properties
      8. com.liferay.filters.sso.cas.CASFilter=true
    8. Add the following line to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/portal-ext.properties
      9. auto.login.hooks=com.liferay.portal.security.auth.CASAutoLogin
    9. Restart Tomcat

You can now access your LifeRay instance, and get the CAS login instead…

Using Liferay SSO with Oracle Access Manager 11g

Well, I was given a challenging task – using Oracle Access Manager 11g as an SSO provider for Liferay 6.0 (the community edition…).
Now, as you might know – there is no built-in OAM support for Liferay – so I was stuck with configuring one myself. Since I didn’t even have the OAM installed – I’ll detail all the steps I did. To simplify matters – I installed OAM on Microsoft Windows Server, but the same should hold for Linux.

All Oracle downloads were downloaded from edelivery.oracle.com. Version is 11.1.0.6.
 

OAM Installation

  1. Install Oracle database. I didn’t install Oracle XE, but rather the Enterprise edition.
  2. Alter the Oracle database.
    1. Open sqlplus as sys and run the following commands
      2. alter system set open_cursors=1000 scope=both;
alter system set processes=1000 scope=SPFILE;
  3. Restart Oracle DB.
  4. Run RCU (V33643-01), and check the Identity Managent checkbox. Proceed with the installation.
  5. Install WebLogic Server (wls1036_generic)
  6. Install SOA Suite (ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of2 and ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_2of2).
  7. Install IdM (V33644-01_1of2 and V33644-01_2of2)
  8. From your ORACLE_HOME/IDM_HOME/common/bin run the config.cmd file.
  9. Install all the required components (especially all the Oracle Access Manager relevant components).
  10. DO NOT START THE ADMIN SERVER.
  11. Run the following WLST scripts (thank you Warren
    12. $MW_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.cmd $ORACLE_HOME/common/tools/configureSecurityStore.py -d $IAM_DOMAIN_LOCATION -m create     -c IAM -p $ORA_PASS
$MW_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.cmd $ORACLE_HOME/common/tools/configureSecurityStore.py -d $IAM_DOMAIN_LOCATION -m validate
  12. Where
    1. $MW_HOME is where you put the Middleware home (e.g. ~/Oracle/Middleware)
      $ORACLE_HOME
    2. is the Oracle IAM home (e.g. ~/Oracle/Middleware/Oracle_IAM1)
      $IAM_DOMAIN_
    3. LOCATION is the domain home (e.g. ~/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/domains/OAMDomain)
    4. $ORA_PASS is the password needed to talk to the database
  13. Now you can safely run the admin server. Connect to it using IP_ADDR:7001/em, and start the OAM managed server too.

Apache installation/configuration

On a separate machine (I used RedHat Linux 5.5):

  1. Install Apache2.2
  2. Configure WebGate (I used ZIP file oam_int_linux_v10_cd1.zip)
  3. Configure Apache to act as a proxy for your Liferay server by using ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse. For instance:
    4. ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /web http://LIFERAY_SERVER:8080/web
ProxyPassReverse /web http://LIFERAY_SERVER:8080/web
  4. Configure WebGate in the Apache. On my machine the configuration looked like this:
    5. LoadModule obWebgateModule "/usr/local/webgate/product/access/oblix/apps/webgate/bin/webgate.so"

LoadFile "/usr/local/webgate/libgcc_s.so.1"
LoadFile "/usr/local/webgate/libstdc++.so.6"

        WebGateInstalldir "/usr/local/webgate/product/access"
        WebGateMode PEER
        #webgateload obWebgateModule "/usr/local/webgate/product/access/oblix/apps/webgate/bin/webgate.so"


        SetHandler obwebgateerr


        SetHandler obwebgateerr


        AuthType Oblix
        require valid-user

OAM Configuration

  1. Open the Access Manager console, and click on the “New OAM10g WebGate”
  2. Fill in the details, exactly as you did during the WebGate installation.
  3. Go to “Application Domains”, and select the newly created Application Policy
  4. Change any required value, and select “Authorization Policies”
  5. Select the “Protected Resource Policy”
  6. Select “Responses”
  7. Add a new response – HTTP Header with the name of LIFERAY_SCREEN_NAME and value of uid

Liferay Configuration

  1. Edit the portal-ext.properties file and add the following line:
    2. auto.login.hooks=com.liferay.portal.security.auth.RequestHeaderAutoLogin

Restart Apache, and browse to it. You should get the OAM login page, and after login – you should see you have automatically logged-in into Liferay…