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  1. Infinispan
  2. ISPN-7712

LDAP Authorization Common RoleName Mapper Case Insensitive CN extraction

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      1. Import the ldif `example.com.ldif` into your LDAP server, be sure the update the passwords of the users as the exported passwords will work
      2. Define a LDAP security realm in cluster.xml
      3. Define authorisation using group-to-principal method
      4. Add authorisation to cache-container and cache with mapper as "common-role-name-mapper"

      for steps 2-5 you can use the `ldap_cluster_notworking.xml` from the attachments

      Run the JDGSecurityTest.java, you will get security exception of user not having the permissions, even though user is authorised to perform the required operations.

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      1. Import the ldif `example.com.ldif` into your LDAP server, be sure the update the passwords of the users as the exported passwords will work 2. Define a LDAP security realm in cluster.xml 3. Define authorisation using group-to-principal method 4. Add authorisation to cache-container and cache with mapper as "common-role-name-mapper" for steps 2-5 you can use the `ldap_cluster_notworking.xml` from the attachments Run the JDGSecurityTest.java, you will get security exception of user not having the permissions, even though user is authorised to perform the required operations.
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      Now update the cluster.xml with cache-container mapper to `identity-role-mapper` ( you can use `ldap_cluster_workaround.xml`) for this update

      Re-run 'JDGSecurityTest.java' the test again and you will see the tests passing.

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      Now update the cluster.xml with cache-container mapper to `identity-role-mapper` ( you can use `ldap_cluster_workaround.xml`) for this update Re-run 'JDGSecurityTest.java' the test again and you will see the tests passing.

      When enabling security with Inifinispan with LDAP backend and when using `common-role-name-mapper` for authorisation, the extraction fails to extract the role name when the role name attribute e.g. "cn" is used instead of "CN" in the distinguished name.

      Its identified that the `org.infinispan.security.impl.CommonRoleMapper` use a case sensitive search and extracts roles only when the DN is like "CN=Developers,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com"

      The current workaround is to use the use a ldap authorization like 

      <group-search group-name="SIMPLE" iterative="true" group-dn-attribute="dn" group-name-attribute="cn">
 <group-to-principal search-by="DISTINGUISHED_NAME" base-dn="ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com">
                                <membership-filter principal-attribute="uniqueMember"/>
 </group-to-principal>
 </group-search>

      and define the cache-container authorisation like 

       <security>
      <authorization>
                       <!-- This does not work as the role extraction uses case sensitive extraction of cn -->
                        <!-- common-name-role-mapper/ -->
                        <identity-role-mapper/>
                        <role name="ClusterAdmins" permissions="ALL"/>
                        <role name="Developers" permissions="WRITE"/>
                        <role name="Business" permissions="READ"/>
                        <role name="Managers" permissions="ALL_READ ALL_WRITE"/>
       </authorization>
</security>

        1. example.com.ldif
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          Kamesh Sampath
        2. jdg-security-demo.tar.gz
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          Kamesh Sampath
        3. ldap_cluster_notworking.xml
          25 kB
          Kamesh Sampath
        4. ldap_cluster_workaround.xml
          26 kB
          Kamesh Sampath

              ttarrant@redhat.com Tristan Tarrant
              ksampath@redhat.com Kamesh Sampath (Inactive)
              Tristan Tarrant
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