This is an auth provider implementation that uses Apache Shiro. To use this project, add the following dependency to the dependencies section of your build descriptor:
Maven (in your pom.xml):
<dependency>
<groupId>io.vertx</groupId>
<artifactId>vertx-auth-shiro</artifactId>
<version>3.7.1</version>
</dependency>Gradle (in your build.gradle file):
compile 'io.vertx:vertx-auth-shiro:3.7.1'We provide out of the box support for properties and LDAP based auth using Shiro, and you can also plugin in any other Shiro Realm which expects username and password for credentials.
To create an instance of the provider you use ShiroAuth. You specify the type of
Shiro auth provider that you want with ShiroAuthRealmType, and you specify the
configuration in a JSON object.
Here’s an example of creating a Shiro auth provider by specifying the type:
var ShiroAuth = require("vertx-auth-shiro-js/shiro_auth");
var config = {
"properties_path" : "classpath:test-auth.properties"
};
var provider = ShiroAuth.create(vertx, {
"type" : "PROPERTIES",
"config" : config
});When authenticating using this implementation, it assumes username and password fields are present in the
authentication info:
var authInfo = {
"username" : "tim",
"password" : "sausages"
};
authProvider.authenticate(authInfo, function (res, res_err) {
if (res_err == null) {
var user = res;
} else {
// Failed!
}
});Although Vert.x auth itself does not mandate any specific model of permissions (they are just opaque strings), this implementation uses a familiar user/role/permission model, where a user can have zero or more roles and a role can have zero or more permissions.
If validating if a user has a particular permission simply pass the permission into.
isAuthorised as follows:
user.isAuthorized("newsletter:edit:13", function (res, res_err) {
if (res_err == null) {
var hasPermission = res;
} else {
// Failed to
}
});If validating that a user has a particular role then you should prefix the argument with the role prefix.
user.isAuthorized("role:manager", function (res, res_err) {
if (res_err == null) {
var hasRole = res;
} else {
// Failed to
}
});The default role prefix is role:. You can change this with setRolePrefix.
This auth provider implementation uses Apache Shiro to get user/role/permission information from a properties file.
Note that roles are not available directly on the API due to the fact that vertx-auth tries to be as portable as
possible. However one can run assertions on role by using the prefix role: or by specifying the prefered prefix
with setRolePrefix.
The implementation will, by default, look for a file called vertx-users.properties on the classpath.
If you want to change this, you can use the properties_path configuration element to define how the properties
file is found.
The default value is classpath:vertx-users.properties.
If the value is prefixed with classpath: then the classpath will be searched for a properties file of that name.
If the value is prefixed with file: then it specifies a file on the file system.
If the value is prefixed with url: then it specifies a URL from where to load the properties.
The properties file should have the following structure:
Each line should either contain the username, password and roles for a user or the permissions in a role.
For a user line it should be of the form:
user.{username}={password},{roleName1},{roleName2},…,{roleNameN}
For a role line it should be of the form:
role.{roleName}={permissionName1},{permissionName2},…,{permissionNameN}
Here’s an example:
user.tim = mypassword,administrator,developer user.bob = hispassword,developer user.joe = anotherpassword,manager role.administrator=* role.manager=play_golf,say_buzzwords role.developer=do_actual_work
When describing roles a wildcard * can be used to indicate that the role has all permissions.
The LDAP auth realm gets user/role/permission information from an LDAP server.
The following configuration properties are used to configure the LDAP realm:
ldap_user_dn_templatethis is used to determine the actual lookup to use when looking up a user with a particular
id. An example is uid={0},ou=users,dc=foo,dc=com - the element {0} is substituted with the user id to create the
actual lookup. This setting is mandatory.
ldap_urlthe url to the LDAP server. The url must start with ldap:// and a port must be specified.
An example is ldap://myldapserver.mycompany.com:10389
ldap_authentication_mechanismSets the type of LDAP authentication mechanism to use when connecting to the LDAP server.
ldap_context_factory_class_nameThe name of the ContextFactory class to use. This defaults to the SUN LDAP JNDI implementation but can be overridden to use custom LDAP factories.
ldap_pooling_enabledSets whether or not connection pooling should be used when possible and appropriate.
ldap_referralSets the LDAP referral behavior when creating a connection. Defaults to follow. See the Sun/Oracle LDAP
referral documentation for more: http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/ldap/referral/jndi.html
ldap_system_usernameSets the system username that will be used when creating an LDAP connection used for authorization queries. The user must have the ability to query for authorization data for any application user. Note that setting this property is not required if the calling LDAP Realm does not perform authorization checks.
ldap_system_passwordSets the password of the that will be used when creating an LDAP connection used for authorization queries. Note that setting this property is not required if the calling LDAP Realm does not perform authorization checks.
For more information, refer to the documentation of org.apache.shiro.realm.ldap.JndiLdapContextFactory.
It’s also possible to create an auth provider instance using a pre-created Apache Shiro Realm object.
This is done as follows:
var ShiroAuth = require("vertx-auth-shiro-js/shiro_auth");
var provider = ShiroAuth.create(vertx, realm);The implementation currently assumes that user/password based authentication is used.