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Client configuration

aanganes edited this page Apr 26, 2013 · 28 revisions

The client portion of MITREid Connect is usable as a Spring Security filter. The Simple Web App project has an example configuration for this filter in the context of a working application. This page describes the different components.

Auth Provider

The OIDCAuthenticationProvider class implements a Spring Security Authentication Provider that can be used with a standard Authentication Manager. This Authentication Provider handles fetching UserInfo from the server's UserInfo endpoint. The UserInfo information is then stored on the OIDCAuthenticationToken object that is returned from the authentication process.

<security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
  <security:authentication-provider ref="openIdConnectAuthenticationProvider" />
</security:authentication-manager>

<bean id="openIdConnectAuthenticationProvider" class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.OIDCAuthenticationProvider">
  ...
</bean>

The Principal object is an immutable map of the issuer and subject, a pairing which is guaranteed to be globally unique.

Named administrator configuration

By default all valid users get a special Spring Security GrantedAuthority that is based on the issuer and subject of the user, such as OIDC_2398ufe23u_https://example-idp.com/openid-connect-server/.

To map these authorities into more useful ones like ROLE_USER and ROLE_ADMIN, you need to wire in an authorities mapper, such as the one included in the client library:

		<property name="authoritiesMapper">
			<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.NamedAdminAuthoritiesMapper">
				<property name="admins">
					<set>
					<!-- This is an example of how to set up a user as an administrator: they'll be given ROLE_ADMIN in addition to ROLE_USER -->
						<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.SubjectIssuerGrantedAuthority">
							<constructor-arg name="subject" value="${admin.sub}" />
							<constructor-arg name="issuer" value="${admin.iss}" />
						</bean>
					</set>
				</property>
			</bean>
		</property>

Filter

There is one filter class org.mitre.openid.connect.client.OIDCAuthenticationFilter that handles all core client (or "Relying Party") functions. It is set to listen on /openid-connect-login at the root of the application. The filter bean is configured like this:

<bean id="openIdConnectAuthenticationFilter" class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.OIDCAuthenticationFilter">
  <property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
  <property name="serverConfigurationService">
    ...
  </property>
  <property name="clientConfigurationService">
    ...
  </property>
  <property name="issuerService">
    ...
  </property>
  <property name="authRequestUrlBuilder">
    ...
  </property>
</bean>

It is configurable for use in different modes through the use of four different properties that can be wired through different beans as described below:

  • issuerService: Determines which OpenID Connect Issuer (server) to connect to
  • serverConfigurationService: Provides the configuration parameters of each OpenID Connect Issuer
  • clientConfigurationService: Provides the configuration parameters for this client to connect to each OpenID Connect Issuer
  • authRequestUrlBuilder: Crafts the URL used to redirect the user to the OpenID Connect server

Validator

To validate ID token signatures, the client will need access to a validator for each issuer's key set. This service bean will automatically fetch the keys and set up a validator:

<bean id="validatorCache" class="org.mitre.jwt.signer.service.impl.JWKSetSigningAndValidationServiceCacheService" /> 

Issuer Service

Static Issuer Service

Always returns the same issuer, very useful for tightly-coupled deployments.

<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.StaticSingleIssuerService">
  <property name="issuer" value="${idp.url}" />
</bean>

Third-Party Issuer Service

Allows an issuer to be passed in following the format of the OpenID Connect third party client login initiation protocol. If the issuer is not passed in the iss parameter, it will redirect the user to an Account Chooser URL and listen for the callback.

<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.ThirdPartyIssuerService">
  <property name="accountChooserUrl" value="http://login.example.net/account-chooser/" />
</bean>

Webfinger Discovery Issuer Service

Takes in input from a user form and does discovery based on the Webfinger protocol. The filter will redirect the user to a login page (to be supplied by the client application) if an identifier is not returned as a result of this discovery.

<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.WebfingerIssuerService">
  <property name="loginPageUrl" value="login" />
</bean>

Server Configuration

The client must know things about the server such as its authorization endpoint URL and token endpoint URL. Since these will vary from issuer to issuer, the server configuration objects are indexed by issuer URL.

Static Server Configuration

Provides server information such as authorization endpoint url, issuer, and other parameters for each configured issuer configured as in-memory objects inside a map.

			<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.StaticServerConfigurationService">
				<property name="servers">
					<map>
						<entry key="${idp.url}">
							<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.config.ServerConfiguration">
								<property name="issuer" value="${idp.url}" />
								<property name="authorizationEndpointUri"	value="${idp.url}authorize" />
								<property name="tokenEndpointUri"	value="${idp.url}token" />
								<property name="userInfoUri" value="${idp.url}userinfo" />
								<property name="jwksUri" value="${idp.url}jwk" />
							</bean>
						</entry>
					</map>
				</property>
			</bean>

Dynamically Discovered Server Configuration

Dynamically discovers server information for an issuer based on the OpenID Connect Discovery protocol.

<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.DynamicServerConfigurationService" />

Server information is stored in an in-memory cache after discovery.

Client Configuration

The client must know certain things like its client_id and client_secret in order to request tokens. These are likely to vary from issuer to issuer, so the client configuration objects are indexed by the server configuration object in this service.

Static Client Configuration

Provides information for a pre-registered client to connect to a server.

			<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.StaticClientConfigurationService">
				<property name="clients">
					<map>
						<entry key="${idp.url}">
							<bean class="org.mitre.oauth2.model.ClientDetailsEntity">
								<property name="clientId" value="client" />
								<property name="clientSecret" value="secret" />
								<property name="scope">
									<set value-type="java.lang.String">
										<value>openid</value>
										<value>email</value>
										<value>address</value>
										<value>profile</value>
										<value>phone</value>
									</set>
								</property>
							</bean>
						</entry>
					</map>
  </property>
</bean>

Dynamically Registered Client Configuration

Dynamically registers the client for each issuer based on the template of client information.

			<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.DynamicRegistrationClientConfigurationService">
				<property name="template">
					<bean class="org.mitre.oauth2.model.ClientDetailsEntity">
						<property name="clientName" value="Simple Web App" />
						<property name="scope">
							<set value-type="java.lang.String">
								<value>openid</value>
								<value>email</value>
								<value>address</value>
								<value>profile</value>
								<value>phone</value>
							</set>
						</property>
					</bean>
 				</property>
 			</bean>

All properties set in the template object are passed in to the dynamic registration endpoint's input and the dynamically registered client information is held in an in-memory cache.

Authorization Request URL Builder

Plain Authorization Request

Builds the URL using normal HTTP parameters.

<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.PlainAuthRequestUrlBuilder" />

Signed Authorization Request

Builds the URL using a signed Request Object.

<bean class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.service.impl.SignedAuthRequestUrlBuilder">
  <property name="signingAndValidationService" ref="defaultsignerService" />
</bean>

This also requires configuration (and generation) of a json web key set and several support components such as a signing and validation service and a keystore:

	<bean id="defaultsignerService" class="org.mitre.jwt.signer.service.impl.DefaultJwtSigningAndValidationService">
		<constructor-arg name="keyStore">
			<bean id="defaultKeyStore" class="org.mitre.jose.keystore.JWKSetKeyStore">
				<property name="location" value="classpath:keystore.jwks" />
			</bean>
		</constructor-arg>
		<property name="defaultSignerKeyId" value="rsa1" />
 		<property name="defaultSigningAlgorithmName" value="RS256" />
	</bean>

Furthermore, the client must be configured to publish its public key at a URL that the server can fetch in order to validate the request object's signature. The following bean will publish whatever keys are configured in the signing and validation service that's used in the auth request builder:

	<bean id="clientKeyPublisher" class="org.mitre.openid.connect.client.keypublisher.ClientKeyPublisher">
 		<property name="jwkPublishUrl" value="jwk" />
 		<property name="signingAndValidationService" ref="defaultsignerService" />
 	</bean>
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