IUDX-AAA is the Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting server for accessing IUDX services.

• Make a config file based on the template in ./configs/config-example.json
• Setup the key used to sign JWT tokens
• Modify the database url and associated credentials in the appropriate sections
• Set up the database using Flyway
• Set up Keycloak

The Current Implementation of JWT in iudx-aaa-server is based on Vert.x vertx-auth-jwt library. The Vert.x JWT implementation or any other Vertx security implementations generally requires a creation/implementation of security interface AuthenticationProvider, In JWT case it is JWTAuth as Authentication Provider

There are multiple types of signature methods used for signing JWT, and each of them either requires buffer or PKI or certificates, or jks for instantiating the Authentication Provider in Vertx.

The current implementation is based on asymmetric key algorithm ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm), and the signature method is ES256.

The Authentication Provider looks for aliases in the provided Keystore to verify and sign the generated JWT. The keystore and keypair should also be generated and signed using same algorithm which is required to sign and verify the JWT. For Signature algorithm ES256, the keystore alias is ES256.

The Keytool command to generate ECDSA keystore keypair is:

 keytool -genkeypair -keystore keystore-ec.jks -storetype jks -storepass secret -keyalg EC -alias ES256 -keypass secret -sigalg SHA256withECDSA -dname "CN=,OU=,O=,L=,ST=,C=" -validity 360 -deststoretype pkcs12

The keystore path and the keystore password should then be added to the server config.

Flyway is used to manage the database schema and handle migrations. The migration files are located at src/main/resources/db/migrations. The following pre-requisites are needed before running flyway:

1. An admin user - a database user who has create schema/table privileges for the database. It can be the super user.
2. An auth user - a database user with no privileges; this is the database user that will be configured to make queries from the server (e.g. CREATE USER auth WITH PASSWORD 'randompassword';)

flyway.conf must be updated with the required data.

• flyway.url - the database connection URL
• flyway.user - the username of the admin user
• flyway.password - the password of the admin user
• flyway.schemas - the name of the schema under which the tables are created
• flyway.placeholders.authUser - the username of the auth user

Please refer here for more information about Flyway config parameters.

After this, the info command can be run to test the config. Then, the migrate command can be run to set up the database. At the /iudx-aaa-server directory, run

mvn flyway:info -Dflyway.configFiles=flyway.conf
mvn flyway:migrate -Dflyway.configFiles=flyway.conf

The database details should then be added to the server config.

The AAA server uses Keycloak to manage user identity. Please refer here to become familiar with Keycloak terminology.

1. The AAA server required clients to be configured that would allow the server to interact with Keycloak. The main clients are:

• The admin client to be configured for the RegistrationVerticle and AdminVerticle. This client performs admin-related tasks on Keycloak. This client must have the capability to view and update users and realms (In Service account roles -> client roles -> realm-management -> add manage-users, view-realm, view-users to Assigned roles)
• The normal client to be configured for the TokenVerticle and ApiServerVerticle. This client would allow the server to validate Keycloak JWT tokens.

2. The roles provider, consumer, delegate and admin need to be added to the realm.
3. Email as username needs to be configured in the Login tab of the Realm settings.

The Keycloak host and port, along with the client IDs and client secret information should then be added to the server config.

1. Install docker and docker-compose
2. Clone this repo
3. Build the images ./docker/build.sh
4. Modify the docker-compose.yml file to map the config file you just created
5. Start the server in production (prod) or development (dev) mode using docker-compose docker-compose up prod
6. The server will be up in Port 8443

1. Install java 11 and maven
2. Set Environment variables

export AUTH_URL=http://<auth-domain-name>
export LOG_LEVEL=INFO

3. Use the maven exec plugin based starter to start the server mvn clean compile exec:java@aaa-server
4. The server will be up in Port 8443.

1. Run the server through either docker, maven or redeployer
2. Run the all unit tests for a Service mvn -Dtest=TokenServiceTest test
3. Run the unit tests for a method in a Service mvn -Dtest=TokenServiceTest#validateTokenSuccess test

1. Run the server through either docker, maven or redeployer
2. Run the unit tests and generate a surefire report mvn clean test-compile surefire:test surefire-report:report
3. Reports are stored in ./target/

Postman collection and enviroment files can be found at docs/postman.

We follow Git Merge based workflow

1. Fork this repo
2. Create a new feature branch in your fork. Multiple features must have a hyphen separated name, or refer to a milestone name as mentioned in Github -> Projects
3. Commit to your fork and raise a Pull Request with upstream

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