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Securing WebLogic Server 12c
Securing WebLogic Server 12c

Securing WebLogic Server 12c: Learn to develop, administer and troubleshoot for WebLogic Server with this book and ebook.

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Securing WebLogic Server 12c

Chapter 2. WebLogic Security Realm

WebLogic security configuration can be difficult to understand. This chapter clearly covers every aspect you need to consider for activating an internal or external user and group structure. Here, you can also find a very useful section about errors and debugging tips, needed to resolve your configuration issues. This chapter includes the following:

  • Configuration of local LDAP server: user/roles/lockout

  • Configuring an external LDAP for Authentication/Authorization

  • Using Identity Assertion

Configuration of local LDAP server: user/roles/lockout


The simplest way to configure your security realm is through the WebLogic Administration Console; you can find all about security in the section, on the main tree, Security Realms, where the default configuration called myrealm is placed.

Under Security Realms, we have a preconfigured subset of Users, Groups, Authentication methods, Role Mapping, Credential Mapping providers, and some other security settings.

You can configure many realms' security sets, but only one will be active.

On the myrealm section, we find all security parameters of the internal LDAP server configurations, including users and groups.

Consider this; Oracle declares that the embedded WebLogic LDAP server works well with less than 10,000 users; for more users, consider using a different LDAP server and Authentication Provider, for example, an Active Directory Server.

Users and groups

Obviously, here you can add and configure some internal users and some internal groups...

Configuring an external LDAP for Authentication/Authorization


WebLogic supports several types of external authentication providers. Any LDAP v2 or v3 compliant LDAP server should work. Next, we cover the configuration of the Microsoft Active Directory provider in detail, to provide us also with the support for Kerberos Single Sign-On (SSO) integration in a Microsoft domain network; we will see this in Chapter 5, Integrating with Kerberos SPNEGO Identity Assertion.

There are lots of advantages by connecting an existent Users and Groups infrastructure. It permits us to centralize any object (Users and Groups) and centrally manage the security rules and policies without the need to access the WebLogic server. Also, any change applied on Active Directory is logically and dynamically propagated to WebLogic security.

To configure our provider faster and easier, we can use the WebLogic console (advanced users can also use the WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) to make many configuration changes)...

Using Identity Assertion


Typically to support an SSO process, you need to have a LoginModule object and an Identity Assertion provider. With these objects, you can exploit tokens stored by the operating system to do the HTTP authorization process without entering username and password and gain access to your secure resources.

The LoginModule objects trust that the user has obtained the token by providing the username and password to another authority.

Your token can pass from client to server in different ways such as HTTP headers, cookies, SSL certificates, or other custom mechanisms. The Identity Assertion needs to grab this token and extract the security information to allow access to the secured context paths.

We will be using the SPNEGO Identity Asserter provider in Chapter 5, Integrating with Kerberos SPNEGO Identity Assertion to configure the SSO integration in an Active Directory context.

Summary


This chapter covered the basic administration of users and groups of the internal WebLogic LDAP server and some facilities to manage and understand security roles and conditions that you will configure in your server.

This is an important chapter, which covers in detail the parameters and concepts required to attach your WebLogic server in an existing Active Directory environment, tuning and understanding some tricks to improve their performance.

We also discussed the issues that often occur during configuration, along with some typical error codes and their possible solutions.

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  • Discover Authentication providers
  • Configure security for WebLogic applications and develop your own security providers
  • Step by step guide to administer and configure WebLogic security providers
  • Quick guide to security configuration in WebLogic realm

Description

Security is a must in modern Enterprise architecture, and WebLogic implements a very complete and complex architecture for configuration and implementation, and we need to deeply know in technologies, terminology and how the security process works between all actors. Transparent security of your applications and Weblogic infrastructure need a good knowledge of the issues you can incur in this long and error prone configuration process. "Securing WebLogic Server 12c" will simplify a complex world like WebLogic Security, helping the reader to implement and configure. It's the only fast guide that will let you develop and deploy in a production system with best practices both from the development world and the operation world. This book will try to make a clear picture of Java EE Security with clean and simple step-by-step examples that will guide the reader to security implementation and configuration From the concepts of Java EE Security to the development of secure application, from the configuration of a realm to the setup of Kerberos Single Sign on, every concept is expressed in simple terms and surrounded by examples and pictures. Finally, also a way to develop WebLogic Security Providers with Maven, so that you can add the security part of your infrastructure to your enterprise best practices.

Who is this book for?

If you are a WebLogic Server administrator looking forward to a step by step guide to administer and configure WebLogic security, then this is the guide for you. Working knowledge of WebLogic is required.

What you will learn

  • Setup your development environment for WebLogic with Maven
  • Develop applications with Maven using fast split-deployment
  • Configure your applications to take advantage of Java EE Security
  • Understand how to integrate with WebLogic security
  • Configure a Security Realm from scratch
  • Integrate with your enterprise security systems
  • Detailed how-to Kerberos single-sign-on configuration with a little, but userful, knowledge base to solve some typical issue
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WebLogic Security Realm Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This small book shortly explains all the parts which are involved by the WebLogic Security Framework. It describes how to use the internal weblogic and an external LDAP server as authentication provider. Plus a maven example howto develop, deploy a web application which uses security. Another maven example howto develop or configure a custom provider. And the last chapter explains Microsoft Active Directory SSO with WebLogic. I Did not see many new 12c features and most of this information should also work on WebLogic 10.3. I liked the small part about programmatic security with WebLogic XACML provider. But I hoped to learn more about WebLogic 12c and Java EE 6 like the JASPIC,JACC specifications and how this works with WebLogic plus why they are limited compared to weblogic custom providers. The maven part is great for testing the examples but it does not add any value to this content.
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One of the Useless book i have buy it sofar.Security in Java/JEE and in weblogic is one of the most beautiful concept.But this book was explained in a ugly fashion.I don't understand why Author choose to write this topic without providing any intro and technical stuff ,only by writing theory.It is waste of money ,time and expectations to invest on this book.
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