Orbeon Forms community mailing list - Re: Registration / Authentication system for Forms

Re: Registration / Authentication system for Forms

Posted by Eusebio Echevarria on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Registration-Authentication-system-for-Forms-tp4661779p4661791.html

So...I am getting there.

I have Keycloak installed on the same server and running on a different port. I've gone through a similar setup for a test Tomcat app using Keycloak as auth provider but it isn't kicking into action for some reason. Not sure if anyone else has had a play around with this yet.

In terms of user registration and management, I've tested it all and that works perfectly, a new theme would be required but that looks straight forward.

Steps taken so far:-

- Install fresh Tomcat - set roles for manager-gui and admin-gui

- Install fresh Orbeon - tested unauthenticated access

- Install fresh Keycloak (changed ports to not conflict)

- Copied the Tomcat dist jar dependencies into the /lib folder for Keycloak

- Created a context.xml in the /orbeon/META-INF folder and added

</Context>

- Uncommented the security settings in web.xml and set the auth provider to be KEYCLOAK

- Set a new realm, client and user in Keycloak app for testing

- Setup a new role called 'orbeon-user' in Keycloak and added the test user to this role

- Edited the local.properties.xml to include the new role information and to set the container to be in charge of the auth.

I think there is something I am missing to push orbeon to send auth requests to Keycloak but currently I just get a 403 forbidden back from Tomcat.

If anyone is interested in trying out I can send more detailed steps or where I am up to so far.

Thanks,

Eusebio

On 21 September 2016 at 05:56, Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]> wrote:

Eusebio,

> I've been playing with Orbeon PE and from a forms point of view it does
> everything we need it to do and more. The form wizard layout and the
> putting of data into a PDF template once complete is excellent, I haven't
> found any other form product that comes close, especially with repeating
> rows and complex validations.

Thanks for the positive feedback!

> I have explored using Liferay portal, there are issues with Liferay 7 and
> latest Orbeon which there is a bug ticket for, either way though, it seems
> a bit clunky for just user management.

I am not sure if it is clunky, although it can certainly look a bit heavy!
But I have a feeling (which is not very scientific) that a number of Liferay
users are primarily using it for user management! So still, that might be an
option.

I recently found KeyCloak, by RedHat:

http://www.keycloak.org/

It seems to have a number of very interesting features, but we don't have
experience with it yet.

-Erik

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