I am testing with SimpleSecurityManager, its working with cluster/cluster,
data/data. So my understanding is the user name it is taking from
CLUSTER:MANAGE, DATA:MANAGE persmissions? other user name doesn't work.

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Dan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sudhir,
>
> There are no built in user names. There is the SimpleSecurityManager Jens
> mentioned, but that should *only* be used for testing because it doesn't
> have any real passwords. The ExampleSecurityManager can read a json file
> you provide with whatever usernames you want.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Sudhir Babu Pothineni <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Good point Akihiro, although this is not an issue in our case, as the
>> client application which serve the data to end users, collocated with the
>> geode server, so passwords are transmitted with in the cluster and this
>> application is already protected.
>>
>> I am trying to add authentication to backend geode cluster with
>> SecurityManager. This will make client application need username/password
>> in a config file, trying to encrypt this password.
>>
>> One question I still have is, is there default user names: “cluster”,
>> “data” exist for Geode SecurityManager? Sorry for naive question still
>> trying to understand, with out looking into source code.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 26, 2017, at 7:09 PM, Akihiro Kitada <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Sudhir,
>>
>> As far as I know, AuthInitialize is executed at client side. If
>> decrypting passwords at client side via AuthInitialize, those passwords may
>> be conveyed to server side with plane text unencrypted format via network,
>> according to the implementation in AuthInitialize.
>>
>> If you don't want to convey those passwords with plain text format via
>> network, anther way is to de/encrypt passwords at server side
>> SecurityManager implementation at "authenticate" method.
>>
>> Thanks, regards.
>>
>>
>>
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>> 2017-12-27 5:04 GMT+09:00 Sudhir Babu Pothineni <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Thanks Dan.
>>>
>>> Yes I am aware it’s not so secure, I am just trying to meet the company
>>> policy of not directly hardcode the password in a file, encrypted password
>>> will be ok :). I will implement the AuthInitialize.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 26, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Dan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Sudhir,
>>>
>>> You can do pretty much anything you want by implementing your own
>>> AuthInitialize on the client. The AuthInitialize generates the credentials
>>> to send to the server. So for example you could implement an AuthInitialize
>>> that reads and encrypted password, decrypts it, and sends it to the server.
>>>
>>> Encrypting your password won't make your system more secure unless you
>>> are using something other than a file to store your encryption key though.
>>> If your encryption key is just in a file than an attacker just needs to
>>> steal that file as well.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Sudhir Babu Pothineni <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems password encrypt/decrypt is deprecated Apache geode 1.3.
>>>>
>>>> What is the alternative if I want hardcore encrypted password in a
>>>> configuration file of geode client implementation?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Sudhir
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 22, 2017, at 12:35 PM, Jens Deppe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Great. Thanks for the feedback about the documentation!
>>>>
>>>> --Jens
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Sudhir Babu Pothineni <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Jens! Its working.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think in the doc these three parameter should be mentioned together
>>>>> somewhere, Otherwise its not intuitive, although there is lot of
>>>>> description around SecurityManager.
>>>>>
>>>>> security-manager=org.apache.geode.examples.SimpleSecurityManager
>>>>>
>>>>> security-username=admin
>>>>>
>>>>> security-password=xyz1234
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Jens Deppe <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Sudhir,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You should find two sample SecurityManagers in the code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The first is *org.apache.geode.examples.SimpleSecurityManager* [1].
>>>>>> This manager will simply compare the username/password and
>>>>>> *authenticate* if they match. In addition if the username matches a
>>>>>> required permission, then the request is also *authorized*. For
>>>>>> example, if the credentials are *'admin/xyz1234'* then it will never
>>>>>> authenticate. If the credentials are *'dataRead/dataRead'* then the
>>>>>> user would be authenticated for all operations requiring DATA:READ
>>>>>> permissions. Although it's simplistic, this manager is very useful for
>>>>>> testing your whole flow and validating specific permissions for various
>>>>>> operations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The other SecurityManager provided is
>>>>>> *org.apache.geode.examples.security.ExampleSecurityManage*r [2].
>>>>>> This manager takes as input a JSON file which maps users -> roles ->
>>>>>> permissions. The javadoc has examples of using this [3].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Jens
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/geode/blob/develop/geode-core/
>>>>>> src/main/java/org/apache/geode/examples/SimpleSecurityManager.java
>>>>>> [2] https://github.com/apache/geode/blob/develop/geode-core/
>>>>>> src/main/java/org/apache/geode/examples/security/ExampleSecu
>>>>>> rityManager.java
>>>>>> [3] http://geode.apache.org/releases/latest/javadoc/org/apac
>>>>>> he/geode/examples/security/ExampleSecurityManager.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Sudhir Babu Pothineni <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> let me extend my question:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does Geode has any Default/SimpleSecurityManager implementation?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Sudhir Babu Pothineni <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am working on Geode(1.2) authentication. According to the doc,
>>>>>>>> https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/12/managing/securit
>>>>>>>> y/implementing_authentication.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I put gfsecurity.properties:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> security-username=admin
>>>>>>>> security-password=xyz1234
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any other parameters needed?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> because of some reason Geode working without authentication,
>>>>>>>> gfsecurity.properties is in the class path. I am expecting JMX manager 
>>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>>> should work on these credentials.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the help
>>>>>>>> Sudhir
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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