The UAA is a multi tenant identity management service, used in Cloud Foundry, but also available as a stand alone OAuth2 server. It's primary role is as an OAuth2 provider, issuing tokens for client applications to use when they act on behalf of Cloud Foundry users. It can also authenticate users with their Cloud Foundry credentials, and can act as an SSO service using those credentials (or others). It has endpoints for managing user accounts and for registering OAuth2 clients, as well as various other management functions.
Co-ordinates
- Tokens: A note on tokens, scopes and authorities
- Technical forum: cf-dev mailing list
- Docs: docs/
- API Documentation: http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/api/uaa/
- Specification: The Oauth 2 Authorization Framework
- LDAP: UAA LDAP Integration
Quick Start
Requirements:
- Java 8
If this works you are in business:
$ git clone git://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa.git
$ cd uaa
$ ./gradlew run
NOTE: Recent changes removed default keys and default users from the UAA.
We currently enable default keys using the LOGIN_CONFIG_URL variable and load
default sample data is loaded using the default
spring profile (spring.profiles.active
).
In the gradle script we set LOGIN_CONFIG_URL=file://$PWD/uaa/src/main/resources/required_configuration.yml
The apps all work together with the apps running on the same port
(8080) as /uaa
, /app
and /api
.
UAA will log to a file called uaa.log
which can be found using the following command:-
$ sudo find / -name uaa.log
which you should find under something like:-
/private/var/folders/7v/518b18d97_3f4c8fzxphy6f8zcm51c/T/cargo/conf/logs/
Deploy to Cloud Foundry
Currently you are also required to set the following values that are not included with the defaults: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa/blob/master/uaa/src/main/resources/required_configuration.yml
You can also build the app and push it to Cloud Foundry, e.g. Our recommended way is to use a manifest file, but you can do everything on the command line.
Assuming we have a local bosh-lite instance running you could do
$ ./gradlew manifests
$ cf api --skip-ssl-validation api.bosh-lite.com
$ cf auth admin admin
$ cf create-org sample-org
$ cf create-space -o sample-org sample-space
$ cf target -o sample-org -s sample-space
$ cf push -f build/sample-manifests/uaa-cf-application.yml
Your application is now available on http://myuaa.bosh-lite.com
We can also deploy to Pivotal Web Services
$ ./gradlew manifests -Dapp=myuaa-app -Dapp-domain=cfapps.io
$ cf api api.run.pivotal.io
$ cf auth <your username> <your password>
$ cf create-org <your org>
$ cf create-space -o <your org> <your space>
$ cf target -o <your org> -s <your space>
$ cf push -f build/sample-manifests/uaa-cf-application.yml
Demo of command line usage on local server
First run the UAA server as described above:
$ ./gradlew run
From another terminal you can use curl to verify that UAA has started by requesting system information:
$ curl -H "Accept: application/json" localhost:8080/uaa/login
{
"timestamp":"2012-03-28T18:25:49+0100",
"commit_id":"111274e",
"prompts":{"username":["text","Username"],
"password":["password","Password"]
}
}
For complex requests it is more convenient to interact with UAA using
uaac
, the UAA Command Line Client.
If you have a recent ruby installed, install the CLI and use it to
obtain an access token:
$ gem install cf-uaac
$ uaac target http://localhost:8080/uaa
$ uaac token get marissa koala
If you omit the username or password the CLI will prompt you for those fields.
This authenticates and obtains an access token from the server using
the OAuth2 implicit grant, similar to the approach intended for a
client like CF. The token is stored in ~/.uaac.yml
, so dig into
that file and pull out the access token for your cf
target (or use
--verbose
on the login command line above to see it logged to your
console).
Then you can login as a resource server and retrieve the token details:
$ uaac target http://localhost:8080/uaa
$ uaac token decode
You should see your username and the client id of the original token grant on stdout, e.g.
exp: 1355348409
user_name: marissa
scope: cloud_controller.read openid password.write scim.userids tokens.read tokens.write
email: [email protected]
aud: scim tokens openid cloud_controller password
jti: ea2fac72-3f51-4c8f-a7a6-5ffc117af542
user_id: ba14fea0-9d87-4f0c-b59e-32aaa8eb1434
client_id: cf
Running local system against default MySQL and PostgreSQL settings (and Flyway migration script information)
$ ./gradlew -Dspring.profiles.active=default,mysql run
This command will assume that there is a MySQL database available with the default settings for access and will respond to the following JDBC settings.
driver = 'org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver'
url = 'jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/uaa'
user = 'root'
password = 'changeme'
schemas = ['uaa']
In a similar fashion, should you execute the command
$ ./gradlew -Dspring.profiles.active=default,postgresql run
It uses the settings defined as
driver = 'org.postgresql.Driver'
url = 'jdbc:postgresql:uaa'
user = 'root'
password = 'changeme'
These settings are duplicated in two places for the Gradle integration. They are defined as defaults in the Spring XML configuration files and they are defined in the main build.gradle file. The reason they are in the Gradle build file, is so that during Gradle always executes the flywayClean task prior to launching the UAA application. If you wish to not clean the DB, you can define the variable
-Dflyway.clean=false
as part of your command line. This disables the flywayClean task in the gradle script. Another way to disable to the flywayClean is to not specify the spring profiles on the command line, but set the profiles in the uaa.yml and login.yml files.
Demo of command line usage on run.pivotal.io
The same command line example should work against a UAA running on run.pivotal.io (except for the token decoding bit because you won't have the client secret). In this case, there is no need to run a local uaa server, so simply ask the external login endpoint to tell you about the system:
$ curl -H "Accept: application/json" login.run.pivotal.io
{
"prompts":{"username":["text","Username"],
"password":["password","Password"]
}
}
You can then try logging in with the UAA ruby gem. Make sure you have ruby 1.9, then
$ gem install cf-uaac
$ uaac target uaa.run.pivotal.io
$ uaac token get [yourusername] [yourpassword]
(or leave out the username / password to be prompted).
This authenticates and obtains an access token from the server using the OAuth2 implicit grant, the same as used by a client like CF.
Integration tests
You can run the integration tests with
$ ./gradlew integrationTest
will run the integration tests against a uaa server running in a local
Apache Tomcat instance, so for example the service URL is set to http://localhost:8080/uaa
(by
default).
You can point the CLOUD_FOUNDRY_CONFIG_PATH
to pick up a
uaa.yml
where URLs can be changed
and (if appropriate) set the context root for running the
server (see below for more detail on that).
Custom YAML Configuration
To modify the runtime parameters you can provide a uaa.yml
, e.g.
$ cat > /tmp/config/uaa.yml
uaa:
host: uaa.appcloud21.dev.mozycloud
test:
username: [email protected] # defaults to [email protected]
password: changeme
email: [email protected]
then from uaa/uaa
$ CLOUD_FOUNDRY_CONFIG_PATH=/tmp/config ./gradlew test
The webapp looks for Yaml content in the following locations (later entries override earlier ones) when it starts up.
classpath:uaa.yml
file:${CLOUD_FOUNDRY_CONFIG_PATH}/uaa.yml
file:${UAA_CONFIG_FILE}
${UAA_CONFIG_URL}
System.getEnv('UAA_CONFIG_YAML') -> environment variable, if set must contain valid Yaml
For example, to deploy the UAA as a Cloud Foundry application, you can provide an application manifest like
---
applications:
- name: standalone-uaa-cf-war
memory: 1024M
instances: 1
host: standalone-uaa
path: cloudfoundry-identity-uaa-<YOUR-VERSION-HERE>.war
env:
JBP_CONFIG_SPRING_AUTO_RECONFIGURATION: '[enabled: false]'
JBP_CONFIG_TOMCAT: '{tomcat: { version: 7.0.+ }}'
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: hsqldb,default
UAA_CONFIG_YAML: |
uaa.url: http://standalone-uaa.cfapps.io
login.url: http://standalone-uaa.cfapps.io
smtp:
host: mail.server.host
port: 3535
Or as an alternative, set the yaml configuration as a string for an environment variable using the set-env command
cf set-env sample-uaa-cf-war UAA_CONFIG_YAML '{ uaa.url: http://standalone-uaa.myapp.com, login.url: http://standalone-uaa.myapp.com, smtp: { host: mail.server.host, port: 3535 } }'
In addition, any simple type property that is read by the UAA can also be fully expanded and read as a system environment variable itself. Notice how uaa.url can be converted into an environment variable called UAA_URL
---
applications:
- name: standalone-uaa-cf-war
memory: 1024M
instances: 1
host: standalone-uaa
path: cloudfoundry-identity-uaa-<YOUR-VERSION-HERE>.war
env:
JBP_CONFIG_SPRING_AUTO_RECONFIGURATION: '[enabled: false]'
JBP_CONFIG_TOMCAT: '{tomcat: { version: 7.0.+ }}'
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: hsqldb,default
UAA_URL: http://standalone-uaa.cfapps.io
LOGIN_URL: http://standalone-uaa.cfapps.io
UAA_CONFIG_YAML: |
smtp:
host: mail.server.host
port: 3535
Using Gradle to test with postgresql or mysql
The default uaa unit tests (./gradlew test integrationTest) use hsqldb.
To run the unit tests using postgresql:
$ ./gradlew -Dspring.profiles.active=default,postgresql test integrationTest
Optionally, the Spring profile can be configured in the uaa.yml
file
$ echo "spring_profiles: default,postgresql" > src/main/resources/uaa.yml
To run the unit tests using mysql:
$ ./gradlew -Dspring.profiles.active=default,mysql test integrationTest
The database configuration for the common and scim modules is defaulted in
the Spring XML configuration files.
You can change them by configuring them in uaa.yml
The defaults are
PostgreSQL: User: root Password: changeme Database: uaa Host: localhost Port: 5432
MySQL: User: root Password: changeme Database: uaa Host: localhost Port: 3306
Inventory
There are actually several projects here, the main uaa
server application, a client library and some samples:
-
uaa
a WAR project for easy deployment -
server
a JAR project containing the implementation of UAA's REST API (including SCIM) and UI -
model
a JAR project used by both the client library and server -
client-lib
a JAR project that provides a Java client API -
api
(sample) is an OAuth2 resource service which returns a mock list of deployed apps -
app
(sample) is a user application that uses both of the above
In CloudFoundry terms
-
uaa
provides an authentication service plus authorized delegation for back-end services and apps (by issuing OAuth2 access tokens). -
api
is a service that provides resources that other applications may wish to access on behalf of the resource owner (the end user). -
app
is a webapp that needs single sign on and access to theapi
service on behalf of users.
Organization of Code
The projects are organized into horizontal layers; client, model, server, etc. Within all of these projects the java packages are organized vertically around our internal services; zones, providers, clients, etc.
UAA Server
The authentication service is uaa
. It's a plain Spring MVC webapp.
Deploy as normal in Tomcat or your container of choice, or execute
./gradlew run
to run it directly from uaa
directory in the source
tree. When running with gradle it listens on port 8080 and the URL is
http://localhost:8080/uaa
The UAA Server supports the APIs defined in the UAA-APIs document. To summarise:
-
The OAuth2 /oauth/authorize and /oauth/token endpoints
-
A /login_info endpoint to allow querying for required login prompts
-
A /check_token endpoint, to allow resource servers to obtain information about an access token submitted by an OAuth2 client.
-
A /token_key endpoint, to allow resource servers to obtain the verification key to verify token signatures
-
SCIM user provisioning endpoint
-
OpenID connect endpoints to support authentication /userinfo. Partial OpenID support.
Authentication can be performed by command line clients by submitting
credentials directly to the /oauth/authorize
endpoint (as described in
UAA-API doc). There is an ImplicitAccessTokenProvider
in Spring
Security OAuth that can do the heavy lifting if your client is Java.
By default uaa
will launch with a context root /uaa
.
Use Cases
-
Authenticate
GET /login
A basic form login interface.
-
Approve OAuth2 token grant
GET /oauth/authorize?client_id=app&response_type=code...
Standard OAuth2 Authorization Endpoint.
-
Obtain access token
POST /oauth/token
Standard OAuth2 Authorization Endpoint.
Configuration
There are two configuration files, uaa.yml
and login.yml
, in the application which provides defaults to the
placeholders in the Spring XML.
Wherever you see ${placeholder.name}
in the XML there is an opportunity to override
it either by providing a System property (-D
to JVM) with the same
name, or a custom uaa.yml
or login.yml
(as described above).
The uaa.yml
and login.yml
get merged during startup into one configuration.
All passwords and client secrets in the config files are plain text, but they will be inserted into the UAA database encrypted with BCrypt.
In the future, you will be able to provide passwords in bcrypt format to avoid having to specify clear text passwords.
User Account Data
The default is to use an in-memory RDBMS user store that is
pre-populated with a single test users: marissa
has password
koala
.
To use Postgresql for user data, activate the Spring profile postgresql
.
The active profiles can be configured in uaa.yml
using
spring_profiles: postgresql,default
Or specify PostgreSQL on the command line:
$ ./gradlew -Dspring.profiles.active=default,postgresql run
The API Sample Application
Two sample applications are included with the UAA. The /api
and /app
Run it using ./gradlew run
from the uaa
root directory
All three apps, /uaa
, /api
and /app
get deployed
simultaneously.
The App Sample Application
This is a user interface app (primarily aimed at browsers) that uses
OpenId Connect for authentication (i.e. SSO) and OAuth2 for access
grants. It authenticates with the Auth service, and then accesses
resources in the API service. Run it with ./gradlew run
from the
uaa
root directory.
The application can operate in multiple different profiles according
to the location (and presence) of the UAA server and the Login
application. By default it will look for a UAA on
localhost:8080/uaa
, but you can change this by setting an
environment variable (or System property) called UAA_PROFILE
. In
the application source code (samples/app/src/main/resources
) you will find
multiple properties files pre-configured with different likely
locations for those servers. They are all in the form
application-<UAA_PROFILE>.properties
and the naming convention
adopted is that the UAA_PROFILE
is local
for the localhost
deployment, vcap
for a vcap.me
deployment, staging
for a staging
deployment (inside VMware VPN), etc. The profile names are double
barrelled (e.g. local-vcap
when the login server is in a different
location than the UAA server).
Use Cases
-
See all apps
GET /app/apps
browser is redirected through a series of authentication and access grant steps (which could be slimmed down to implicit steps not requiring user at some point), and then the list of apps is shown.
-
See the currently logged in user details, a bag of attributes grabbed from the open id provider
GET /app
Contributing to the UAA
Here are some ways for you to get involved in the community:
- The UAA has two requirements
- JDK 1.8.0
- PhantomJS, for integration test, http://phantomjs.org/download.html
- Get involved with the Cloud Foundry community on the mailing lists. Please help out on the mailing list by responding to questions and joining the debate.
- Create github tickets for bugs and new features and comment and vote on the ones that you are interested in.
- Github is for social coding: if you want to write code, we encourage contributions through pull requests from forks of this repository. If you want to contribute code this way, please reference an existing issue if there is one as well covering the specific issue you are addressing. Always submit pull requests to the "develop" branch. We strictly adhere to test driven development. We kindly ask that pull requests are accompanied with test cases that would be failing if ran separately from the pull request.
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