Spring Security 3 using OAuth2 for SSO - oauth

Has anyone actually used OAuth2 for SSO within Spring Security 3?
Scenario:
I need my users to be redirected to an OAuth2 URL when they try to access any URL on my site for the first time. Once they are authenticated there, it will redirect them to a URL on my site, where I need to authorize them and create a session so that they will stay authorized on my site until they log out or time out.
I have tried several configurations in Spring Security using custom pre-auth filters, custom user details services, etc., but I cannot get the flow to work properly. I've not attached any code because I've gone through so many possibilities that I'm not even sure what to post.
I'd appreciate any direction anyone can give. Thanks!

OAuth2 isn't intended as an SSO solution. It's primarily about delegating the right to access resources on your behalf to other parties (applications, for example). So if that's not something you need then perhaps you should be looking at a simpler solution.
It's possible to use OAuth2 to allow access to a resource which provides information on your identity, in which case it can be expanded for authentication use. This is how OpenID connect uses it (by adding a userinfo endpoint resource).
You might want to take a look at the UAA project within CloudFoundry which is built on Spring Security OAuth and uses OAuth2 in this way to provide authentication services and to issue access tokens to applications within the system.

This appears to be a somewhat dead question but here are some resources that may prove useful to future searches:
#EnableOAuth2Sso
#EnableOAuth2Resource
Spring Cloud oauth2 SSO sample
Spring oauth2 SSO with a whole bunch of other stuff too

Who is your Oauth2 provider? In a case of some public one like Facebook, Twitter, Google and many others you can take a look at Spring Social project. Even if you use some private provider you can add it very easy (http://blog.springsource.com/2011/03/10/extending-spring-socials-service-provider-framework/, Developing a Netflix Service Provider Implementation section).
Spring Social is designed to cover your main case with some minor difference: by default you must submit a form to start authentication process. I think this difference may be easy customized to feet your needs.
You can play with Spring Social Showcase sample to have an idea about authentication workflow.

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Keycloak and spring security usage

I have used spring security in the past and understand that most of the features of keycloak can be achieved by using spring security ( ldap integration etc ).
Apart from easy social media login validation, are there any other unique features in key cloak which cannot be done using spring security?
With spring-security you would have to create Spring authentication server and explicitly configure/code certain things for integration with LDAP, OAuth2/OIDC providers.
Keycloak is already OAuth2/OIDC/SAMPL compliant IAM provider. It provides features like User Federation with options like LDAP, integration with other OIDC provider etc.
Keycloak provides SPI integration points where you can customize the request flow, use OTP, perform two factor authentication, add google CAPTCHA, or even your CAPTCHA. It provides role based authorization too if you need.
It also provides event handling integration points for events like Login, logout, refresh token, etc.
Keycloak Community will keep adding new features or keep supporting it w.r.t. changes in OAuth2, OIDC, SAML. You don't need to worry about updating your code time to time. Along with this, security updates will be there.
There are many more features.
Most importantly, why reinvent the wheel, if you get these many features and good support.
Keycloak allows you:
to use multiple user storage and get users from multiple LDAP/AD or Kerberos or use without any LDAP.
to login once (SSO) and forget about to login from another application with GUI;
to use one authorization server for multiple application by separation them by realms. One thing should be noted: keycloak could be installed on multiple nodes for better reliability; This also could helpful when application become big and once you decide to separate it on multiple.
to add user additional attributes and fields during get user info without coding (trivial example - set phone number) or specific roles (on realm or even client level) or groups and use all this on the top of an AD attributes;
to configure password rules like password expiration, e-mail validation and so on;
to set up 2-factor authorization with SMS or Email.
These things I think could be implemented using Spring Security, but it takes more time than Keycloak installation and configuration. Personally, I am using Keycloak in multiple commercial projects and could claim that Keycloak is good.

Integrating mautic server with another java application

I'm new to mautic. We have an java application that manages authentication of its users. It also support openid connect/ jwt/oauth flows. We are planning to use mautic as a separate server . How do I integrate my application with mautic? Seems like the mautic only support SAML for SSO. Does that mean our application now need to act as SAML IDP? Or is there a way to get mautic to support JWT/oauth/openid connect
Can you clarify why you need to authenticate users, will these all be people who will be working in the back-end of Mautic? Otherwise you won't need to use authentication for regular folk accessing resources or landing pages you create, they don't need to log in.
The developer documentation would be a good place to start for all things technical/development, which you can find here: https://developer.mautic.org/ - this includes information about authorisation and specifically OAuth which might be helpful: https://developer.mautic.org/#authorization.
You'll find some documentation on using the SAML function here if you're going that route: https://www.mautic.org/docs/en/authentication/saml.html
Happy to help if you get stuck!

Spring Security using OAM (Oracle Access Manager) SSO (Single Sign-On)

I am new to Spring world and with the help of lots of information available online, I have pretty much developed Spring MVC Application I am working on currently.
Last piece I have to implement is to integrate OAM SSO in my application to use as authentication.
I searched a lot on web but couldn't find single example of implementing third party Authentication provider.
I finally realized that I have to use PreAuthentication but I am not sure how I would implement it.
I am unable to share my code because any thing I tried until now is not working and I feel that I haven't got right path yet.
Any help would be much appreciated.
To give you brief idea about OAM, OAM authenticates user ID and Passwords and sends you authenticated requests with a cookied, OBSSOCookie. Using this cookies, you need to contact OAM and get User ID and password and also User Roles (Authorities). Any request coming to your application is already authenticated so you do not need to authenticate again. all you need to do is, using this cookie, need to retrieve user Authorities.
For Spring MVC, you could use the spring-webmvc-pac4j security library, instead of Spring Security. Use a CookieClient to deal with the OBSSOCookie and create your own Authenticator to check this cookie against OAM.

Logging in with IdentityServer with custom client-side log in page

I have a setup of IdentityServer with configuration of a client with hybrid flow. Is it possible to have an ASP.NET MVC app to use this instance of IdentityServer to log-in the user without looping to IdentityServer's log-in page? That is, use a custom log-in page on the client side to get user credentials and then make a server-side connection with IdentityServer to do the authorization? Is there any sample that demonstrates this? Thanks!
From how I interpret your question, the Resource Owner Password Credential Flow seems to fit your scenario.
See the FAQ-like answer here.
"Q. Which Flow Types designed to be used ONLY in trusted environment (like backend REST API/ micro-services isolated from internet, or owned servers/devices, in general: trusted OAuth2 clients)?
A.
Resource Owner Password Credential Flow (ROPCF) [it involve human: app show its own login page then pass user/pass... to STS].
Client Credential flow [machine to machine (API to API): supply client-id and secret]."
*Disclaimer - I understand you are currently using Hybrid flow- My answer simply implies you could change your solution. If that is not possible, then I would suggest looking into multiple OAuth implementations for an MVC app.
Since I didn't get an answer for this, I'm just posting what I've found so far.
It looks like it is not possible to bypass the IdentityServer's log-in page.
For more info about IdentityServer flows see: OIDC and OAuth2 Flows

Single Sign On-- SSO

Please I would like someone to tell me if dotNetOpenAuth single-sign-on.
All I want to achieve is to be able to seamlessly logging to all domains without redirect to third party system for authorisation or Authentication within a mixture programming platforms e.g (PHP or .Net)
DotNetOpenAuth library is a simple library to implement Single Sign On for .NET based application. The only issue I faced was related to performance. It was found to be a known issue with a particular API that cause the sluggishnes.
DotNetOpenAuth can be used for SSO solutions, but each new web site a user visits does need to perform a redirect to the identity provider. In a controlled SSO environment, that provider may never appear to the user, so the login is totally transparent. There are a couple of samples of an SSO configuration that comes with the DotNetOpenAuth download.
DotNetOpenAuth will help you do what you want to do provided you can support OpenID from PHP. You need to implement a provider (the site that authenticates you against a DB or other store), and a consumer (the site you want to log into).
My recommendation would be to consider the authentication protocol you wish to use rather than a specific library at first. In the case if DotNet OpenAuth it has support for:
OpenID
OAuth
InfoCard
These are just a few of the protocols available. You should also look into the SAML family of protocols, in particular SAML 2.0.
There are implementations of SAML for PHP, .NET, and many other platforms. You might want to look at a comparison between OpenID and SAML in order to choose which is better for you.

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