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README for Apache Fortress Web

• Version 3.0.1
• Apache Fortress Web System Architecture Diagram

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Table of Contents

• Document Overview
• About Apache Fortress Web
• Tips for first-time users.
• SECTION 1. Prerequisites
• SECTION 2. Download & Install
• SECTION 3. Configure the Apache Fortress Web deployment
• SECTION 4. Load Sample Security Policy
• SECTION 5. Deploy to Tomcat Server
• SECTION 6. Test with Selenium
• SECTION 7. Fortress Web properties

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Document Overview

This document contains instructions to download, build, and test operations using Apache Fortress Web component.

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About Apache Fortress Web

• A web interface to drive administrative and review functions of Apache Fortress.

• Uses Apache Wicket as the web framework.

• Layered security using …

  • declarative controls:
    • Form-based authentication and coarse-grained role check (Tomcat Realm)
    • Page-level security (Spring Security)
  • programmatic controls:
    • Buttons and link visibility controlled by Apache Fortress

• Each Page maps to a different Fortress entity (Users, Roles, Perms, Groups, …) and has four panels:

  1. Nav (optional): links to the pages.
  2. List: search criteria entered and results are shown.
  3. Info: errors or other program messages displayed here.
  4. Detail: where the work gets done, entering data, completing operations.

• More here: README-SECURITY-MODEL

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Tips for first-time users

• Fortress requires an LDAP server. These can be installed to a Linux machine on the network:
  • README-QUICKSTART-APACHEDS
  • README-QUICKSTART-SLAPD
• Or for testing, can run inside a Docker container:
  • README-QUICKSTART-DOCKER-APACHEDS
  • README-QUICKSTART-DOCKER-SLAPD
• To use the Apache Fortress Web application without building from source, goto: README-QUICKSTART.
• Questions about this software package should be directed to its mailing list:
  • http://mail-archives.apacheorg/mod_mbox/directory-fortress/

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SECTION 1. Prerequisites

Minimum software requirements:

• git
• Java SDK >= 17
• Apache Maven >= 3
• Apache Tomcat >= 10
• LDAP server on the network, configured for Apache Fortress usage.

Everything else covered in the steps that follow. Tested on Debian & Redhat systems.

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SECTION 2. Download & Install Apache Fortress Web

1. Download the source.

a. from git:

git clone --branch 3.0.1 https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/directory-fortress-commander.git/
cd directory-fortress-commander

b. or apache fortress downloads

2. Build the source.

mvn clean install

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SECTION 3. Configure the Apache Fortress Web deployment

1. Copy the fortress.properties example:

cp src/main/resources/fortress.properties.example src/main/resources/fortress.properties

2. Edit the file:

vi src/main/resources/fortress.properties

3. Choose Apache Directory or OpenLDAP server:

a. Prepare fortress for ApacheDS usage:

# This param tells fortress what type of ldap server in use:
ldap.server.type=apacheds

# Use value from [Set Hostname Entry]:
host=localhost

# ApacheDS defaults to this:
port=10389

# These credentials are used for read/write access to all nodes under suffix:
admin.user=uid=admin,ou=system
admin.pw=secret

– Or –

b. Prepare fortress for OpenLDAP usage:

# This param tells fortress what type of ldap server in use:
ldap.server.type=openldap

# Use value from [Set Hostname Entry]:
host=localhost

# OpenLDAP defaults to this:
port=389

# These credentials are used for read/write access to all nodes under suffix:
admin.user=cn=manager,dc=example,dc=com
admin.pw=secret

# Optional, If using audit view pages, enable this service account to the slapd access log database:
log.admin.user=cn=manager,cn=log
# For corresponding log user:
log.admin.pw=secret

3. Enable other options as needed.

a. Look out fortress.properties.example for a list of typical options.

b. Learn more about what properties there are: README-PROPERTIES.

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SECTION 4. Load Sample Security Policy

Run maven install with load file:

mvn install -Dload.file=./src/main/resources/FortressWebDemoUsers.xml

Notes:

• This step must be completed before tests can be successfully run.
• The DelegatedAdminManagerLoad must also be loaded into LDAP, for base policy req’s.

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SECTION 5. Deploy to Tomcat Server

1. If Tomcat has global security enabled you must add credentials to pom.xml:

a. For autodeployment add to pom:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${version.tomcat.maven.plugin}</version>
    <configuration>
        ...
      <!-- Warning the tomcat manager creds here are for deploying into a demo environment only. -->
      <username>tcmanager</username>
      <password>secret</password>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

b. Enable in Tomcat user:

  <user username="tcmanager" password="secret" roles="manager-script"/>

2. Load the Apache Fortress Realm Proxy jar to TOMCAT_HOME/lib/

wget http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/fortress/fortress-realm-proxy/[version]/fortress-realm-proxy-[version].jar -P $TOMCAT_HOME/lib

where TOMCAT_HOME matches your target env. where [version] matches a particular release of fortress, e.g. 3.0.1.

3. Allow javax.swing in TOMCAT_home/bin/setenv.sh

Required for Tomcat 10

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS --add-opens=java.desktop/javax.swing.tree=ALL-UNNAMED"

4. Restart Tomcat server.

5. Enter maven command to deploy to Tomcat:

mvn tomcat:deploy

6. To redeploy:

mvn tomcat:redeploy

7. Open browser and test (creds: test/password):

http://hostname:8080/fortress-web

where hostname is host or ip for your machine

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SECTION 6. Test with Selenium

1. Fortress Web uses WebDriverManager to manage the Selenium drivers.

2. Run the Selenium Web driver integration tests with Firefox (default):

mvn test -Dtest=FortressWebSeleniumITCase

3. Run the tests using Chrome:

mvn test -Dtest=FortressWebSeleniumITCase -Dweb.driver=chrome

4. Troubleshooting

a. Error running on Ubuntu

Popup message: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

• issue

Solution:

# export temp dir:
export TMPDIR=~/tmp

Note: These automated tests require that:

• Either Firefox or Chrome installed to target machine.
• FORTRESS_CORE_HOME/FortressJUnitTest successfully run. This will load some test data to grind on.
• FortressWebDemoUsers policy loaded into target LDAP server.

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SECTION 7. Fortress Web properties

This section describes the properties needed to control fortress web.

1. LDAP Hostname coordinates. The host name can be specified as a fully qualified domain name or IP address.

# Host name and port of LDAP DIT:
host=localhost
port=10389

2. LDAP Server type. Each LDAP server impl has different behavior on operations like password policies and audit. If using a 3rd type of server that isn’t formally supported, leave blank or type is other.

# If ApacheDS server:
ldap.server.type=apacheds

# Else if OpenLDAP server:
ldap.server.type=openldap

# Else leave blank:
#ldap.server.type=other

3. Set the credentials of service account. Must have read/write privileges over the Fortress LDAP DIT:

# If ApacheDS it will look something like this:
admin.user=uid=admin,ou=system
admin.pw=secret

# Else If OpenLDAP it will look something like this:
admin.user=cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com

4. Define the number of LDAP connections to use in the pool This setting will be proportional to the number of concurrent users but won’t be one-to-one. The number of required ldap connections will be much lower than concurrent users:

# This is min/max settings for LDAP connections.  For testing and low-volume instances this will work:
min.admin.conn=1
max.admin.conn=10

5. Give coordinates to the Config node that contains all of the other Fortress properties. This will match your LDAP’s server’s config node per Fortress Core setup.

# This node contains fortress properties stored on behalf of connecting LDAP clients:
config.realm=DEFAULT
config.root=ou=Config,dc=example,dc=com

6. If using LDAPS.

# Used for SSL Connection to LDAP Server:
enable.ldap.ssl=true
enable.ldap.ssl.debug=true
trust.store=/fully/qualified/path/and/file/name/to/java/truststore
trust.store.password=changeit

7. To use REST instead of LDAP. Points to fortress-rest instance.

# This will override default LDAP manager implementations for the RESTful ones:
enable.mgr.impl.rest=true

8. If using REST, provide the credentials of user that has access to fortress-rest.

# Optional parameters needed when Fortress client is connecting with the En Masse (rather than LDAP) server:
http.user=demouser4
http.pw=gX9JbCTxJW5RiH+otQEX0Ja0RIAoPBQf
http.host=localhost
http.port=8080

9. To reenable the nav panel on startup.

# The default is 'false':
enable.nav.panel=true

10. If using ApacheDS and setting password policies, point to the correction location.

# ApacheDS stores its password policies objects here by default:
apacheds.pwpolicy.root=ou=passwordPolicies,ads-interceptorId=authenticationInterceptor,ou=interceptors,ads-directoryServiceId=default,ou=config

11. The fortress web runtime will cache user’s permissions in their session if set to true.

# Used by application security components:
perms.cached=true

12. Each instance of a fortress web can be scoped to one and only one tenant. The default tenant is called HOME.

# This is the default tenant or home context
contextId=HOME

# If you need to scope to a different tenant, supply its ID here:
contextId=mytenantid

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