[GeoNode-users] Working on GeoServer OAuth2 authentication

[Ariel Nunez]

This is great news! Would be great to play with a test deployment once the
basic functionality is there.

Thanks for working on this Alessio.

-a

On Aug 30, 2016 6:08 AM, "Alessio Fabiani" <alessio.fabiani at geo-solutions.it>
wrote:

> Dear all,
> working on a refactoring of the GeoNode-GeoServer Auth subsystem, the idea
> would be to use the OAuth2 Protocol to allow GeoServer grab the
> Authorizations from GeoNode (or from a common OAuth2 Provider).
>
> The first step is to allow GeoServer to authenticate through the OAuth2
> Protocol.
>
> I just finished (almost) a new GeoServer extension allowing users to do
> that.
>
> Here [1] you can find a community module allowing GeoServer to
> authenticate through the OAuth2 protocol.
>
> The basic "oauth2" module contains the general infrastructure.
>
> The "oauth2-google" module is an extension showing how is possible to use
> Google OAuth2 Provider to authenticate and validate the "access_token".
>
> Moreover the Security Filter also "simulates" an SSO based on OAuth2 by
> injecting a provided "access_token" (which is then validated against the
> configured OAuth2 Provider) similar to the GeoServer "AuthKey" module.
>
> How the OAuth2 Filter works
> =====================
>
> 1. The GeoServer GUI allows to configure the OAuth2 Service connection
> parameters and select the GeoServer UserRoleService to use
>
>
> ​
>
> 2. The new filter may be added to the standard GeoServer Filter Chain
>
>
> ​
> 3. If not authenticated, GeoServer redirects the user automatically to the
> Google Login Page
>
>
> ​4. The OAuth2 Protocol asks for Authorizations
>
>
> ​5. Accepting the authorization, the user is redirected to the GeoServer
> endpoint
>
>
> ​
>
> Best Regards,
> Alessio Fabiani.
>
> [1] - https://github.com/geosolutions-it/geoserver/tree/oauth2-filter
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