Having a direct connection with IS is not mandatory...

The Trusted IdP is a proxy - a representation of the external Identity
Provider, in DSS itself...

Thanks & regards,
-Prabath

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Prabath Siriwardena <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> If I understand your requirement correctly, this is about a federation
>> scenario, where users are not under the domain of DSS.
>>
>> I guess we need to fix couple of things here..
>>
>> When I last looked into DSS - the way the DSS picks the username is from
>> the UT header - and the DS must be secured with UT to enable RBAC (please
>> correct me if not).
>>
>> There we need to introduce an extension point to provide the username as
>> well as the roles of the user. And out-of-the-box we can ship UT based
>> handler (please check how its done in Entitlement mediator in ESB).
>>
>> With that way, irrespective of the the security context, you can find the
>> user and the roles.
>>
>> The above scenario is not just for federation - but for both scenarios.
>>
>> Now - how do we have handle this in a federation scenario - I guess that
>> is what you try to fix here.
>>
>> The runtime behavior won't change from what is described above, even in
>> the federation case. You pass the security context to the extension and get
>> back username and the roles, and security context will carry user's roles.
>>
>> Now the challenge is at the configuration time. How do find the allowed
>> roles, in a federation case..?
>>
>> This is why we have trusted identity provider feature. In a federation
>> scenario, you first need to add a trusted identity provider. Each trusted
>> identity provider defines its own roles - and in DSS wizard you pick the
>> IdP and the roles associated with it.
>>
>
> ​When we add IS as a trusted IDP, at design time DSS will call IS and get
> all the roles so we can pic a set to secure the DSS ? Is that correct ?
>
> Regards,
> /Nuwan​
>
>
>
>>
>> Please let me know if you would like to discuss further on this..
>>
>> Thanks & regards,
>> -Prabath
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Rajith Vitharana <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are thinking of doing an improvement in role based filtering
>>> functionality in DSS. We had a scenario where in a clustered environment
>>> users are only maintained in Wso2 IS. So when trying to do role based
>>> filtering, DSS tries to find the user in local userstore which doesn't have
>>> the user which results in error.
>>>
>>> So the idea is to provide a extension point where we can configure the
>>> way to get roles of user.
>>>
>>> And when creating data service, we can select the roles which are
>>> allowed to view filtered content. So for that also we need an api where we
>>> can get all available user roles. So we'll have two method APIs in a single
>>> interface as follows
>>>
>>> [1] - public String[] getUserRoles(MessageContext msgContext) throws
>>> DataServiceFault
>>> [2] - public String[] getAvailableUserRoles() throws DataServiceFault
>>>
>>> [1] and [2] will return array of role names.
>>> And to configure this extension we are going to provide a config file
>>> called "dataservices.xml" in "conf" folder
>>>
>>> Appreciate your feedback on this.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>
>>
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