The superuser role is fedoraAdmin.  This is comparable to the fedoraAdmin superuser role in Fedora 3, used for Fedora 3 API-M operations.

The Fedora authorization modules reside in separate source code modules from the core Fedora web-application.

• WebAC : https://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo-module-auth-webac
• RBACL : https://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo-module-auth-rbacl
• XACML : https://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo-module-auth-xacml

As a result, each release includes pre-built Fedora "webapp-plus" war files that have the authorization modules included. You are recommended to use one of these "webapp-plus" war files as a starting point for having an authorization-enabled deployment.

• Webapp-plus releases: https://github.com/fcrepo4-exts/fcrepo-webapp-plus/releases

You can then follow the guidelines in the Best Practices - Fedora Configuration document to specify site-specific "repo.xml" and "repository.json" configurations, as further described below.

1. Configure your repo.xml file

   Add the beans authenticationProvider and fad to your repo.xml file, and make the modeshapeRepofactory bean dependent on authenticationProvider.  Use the class org.fcrepo.auth.ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider as your authentication provider.  Here is an example repo.xml that configures authentication and authorization using the Basic Roles authorization delegate.

   To specify a local repo.xml configuration, provide the system property as follows:

   JAVA_OPTS="... -Dfcrepo.spring.repo.configuration=file:/local/repo.xml"

   repo.xml with authentication configured

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
   
       <!-- Context that supports the actual ModeShape JCR itself -->
   
       <context:annotation-config/>
   
       <bean name="modeshapeRepofactory"
           class="org.fcrepo.kernel.modeshape.spring.ModeShapeRepositoryFactoryBean"
           p:repositoryConfiguration="${fcrepo.modeshape.configuration:classpath:/config/servlet-auth/repository.json}"
           depends-on="authenticationProvider"/>
   
       <bean class="org.modeshape.jcr.ModeShapeEngine" init-method="start"/>
   
       <bean id="connectionManager" class="org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager" />
   
       <!-- Optional PrincipalProvider that will inspect the request header, "some-header", for user role values -->
       <bean name="headerProvider" class="org.fcrepo.auth.common.HttpHeaderPrincipalProvider">
           <property name="headerName" value="some-header"/>
           <property name="separator" value=","/>
       </bean>
   
       <util:set id="principalProviderSet">
           <ref bean="headerProvider"/>
       </util:set>
   
       <bean name="fad" class="org.fcrepo.auth.roles.basic.BasicRolesAuthorizationDelegate"/>
   
       <bean name="authenticationProvider" class="org.fcrepo.auth.common.ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider">
           <property name="fad" ref="fad"/>
           <property name="principalProviders" ref="principalProviderSet"/>
       </bean>
   
       <!-- For the time being, load annotation config here too -->
       <bean class="org.fcrepo.metrics.MetricsConfig"/>
   </beans>

2. Configure your repository.json file

   Modify the security section to enable both authenticated (via authentication provider) and internal sessions between Fedora and ModeShape. 

   To specify a local repository.json configuration, provide the system property as follows:

   JAVA_OPTS="... -Dfcrepo.modeshape.configuration=file:/local/repository.json"

   It should contain a "security" element that matches this block:

   repository.json security

   "security" : {        
           "anonymous" : {
               "roles" : ["readonly","readwrite","admin"],
               "useOnFailedLogin" : false
           },
           "providers" : [
               { "classname" : "org.fcrepo.auth.common.ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider" }
           ]
       },

3. Configure your web.xml

   Configure your web.xml.
   

   Modify fcrepo-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml by uncommenting the security configuration

     <!--Uncomment section below to enable Basic-Authentication-->
     <security-constraint>
       <web-resource-collection>
         <web-resource-name>Fedora4</web-resource-name>
         <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
         <http-method>DELETE</http-method>
         <http-method>PUT</http-method>
         <http-method>HEAD</http-method>
         <http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
         <http-method>PATCH</http-method>
         <http-method>GET</http-method>
         <http-method>POST</http-method>
       </web-resource-collection>
       <auth-constraint>
         <role-name>fedoraUser</role-name>
         <role-name>fedoraAdmin</role-name>
       </auth-constraint>
       <user-data-constraint>
         <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
       </user-data-constraint>
     </security-constraint>
     <login-config>
       <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
       <realm-name>fcrepo</realm-name>
     </login-config>

   The "auth-constraint" element must contain the roles defined as your users (see below for jetty and tomcat).

4. Configure your web application container

• Jetty

  • Create your jetty-users.properties file.  This file contains entries in the format username:  password [, role, ...], where

    • username is the user's login id (the principal)
    • password is the user's password
    • role is the servlet role they are assigned upon login;  jetty allows you to specify any number of roles (or no role at all).  Fedora currently supports two roles:  fedoraAdmin, which is the superuser role, and has rights to do everything;  and fedoraUser, which is a user role, and must be granted permissions by the Policy Enforcement Point to perform actions.

    Sample jetty-users.properties file that contains three users, two of whom are regular users, and the third of whom (fedoraAdmin) is a Fedora superuser:

    jetty-users.properties

    testuser: password1,fedoraUser
    adminuser: password2,fedoraUser
    fedoraAdmin: secret3,fedoraAdmin

  • Configure your Jetty login realm.

    • Standalone
      Modify your jetty.xml file to configure the login realm and include the jetty-users.properties file:

      jetty.xml login service

      <Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
        
        <!-- Set this to the webapp root of your Fedora 4 repository -->
        <Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
        <!-- Set this to the path of of fcrepo4 WAR file -->
        <Set name="war"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/webapps/fcrepo4</Set>
       
        <Get name="securityHandler">
          <Set name="loginService">
            <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.security.HashLoginService">
              <Set name="name">fcrepo4</Set>
              <!-- Set this to the path to your jetty-users.properties file -->
              <Set name="config"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/path/to/jetty-users.properties</Set>
            </New>
          </Set>
        </Get>
       
      </Configure>
      
      
      

    • Embedded in Maven

      • The fcrepo-webapp Maven project includes jetty-maven-plugin.  The property jetty.users.file sets the location of the jetty-users.properties file.  Run the fcrepo-webapp server with the following system property:

-Djetty.users.file=/path/to/jetty-users.properties

See the Jetty Authentication documentation for more details. 

• Tomcat

  • Create or edit your $CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml file.  It has entries of the form
    

     <user name="principal" password="password" roles="role1, role2, ..." />

    where:

    • name is the user's login id (the principal)
    • password is the user's password
    • roles are the servlet roles they are assigned upon login;  tomcat allows you to specify any number of roles (or no role at all).  Fedora currently supports two roles:  fedoraAdmin, which is the superuser role, and has rights to do everything;  and fedoraUser, which is a user role, and must be granted permissions by the Policy Enforcement Point to perform actions.

    Sample tomcat-users.xml file that contains three users, two of whom are regular users, and the third of whom (fedoraAdmin) is a Fedora superuser:

    tomcat-users.xml

    <tomcat-users>
      <role rolename="fedoraUser" />
      <role rolename="fedoraAdmin" />
      <user name="testuser" password="password1" roles="fedoraUser" />
      <user name="adminuser" password="password2" roles="fedoraUser" />
      <user name="fedoraAdmin" password="secret3" roles="fedoraAdmin" />
    </tomcat-users>

  • Configure your Tomcat login realm.
    Modify your file $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml file to configure the login realm with the Fedora 4 webapp context:

    Tomcat server.xml Realm

    <Context>
    ...
      <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
             resourceName="UserDatabase" />
    </Context>

    See the Tomcat Realms documentation for more details.
     

This configuration does not preclude the use of container authentication to secure Fedora. However, container roles are not used for any further authorization within Fedora. All requests are treated as superusers.

The security bypass for REST endpoint is accomplished by supplying an alternate ModeShape authentication provider for servlet credentials. This servlet authentication provider permits all actions at the Modeshape level and does not use a PEP (Policy Enforcement Point).

Step-by-Step Configuration

1. If you previously configured a PEP, open your repo.xml file and remove any beans that are instances of "org.fcrepo.auth.common.ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider".
2. Also remove the PEP bean, if one was configured.
3. Remove the depends-on attribute on the modeshapeRepofactory bean, if there is one.
4. Open your repository.json file
5. Under security, configure the "BypassSecurityServletAuthenticationProvider", as shown in the example below.

"security" : {
  "anonymous" : {
    "roles" : ["readonly","readwrite","admin"],
    "useOnFailedLogin" : false
  },
  "providers" : [
    { "classname" : "org.fcrepo.auth.commons.BypassSecurityServletAuthenticationProvider" }
  ]
},

Overview

Fedora Authorization Delegates allow you to implement one interface to enforce access control over your Fedora repository. This interface, FedoraAuthorizationDelegate, has callbacks that allow you to restrict ModeShape operations and filter search results. After following these configuration steps, Fedora's REST endpoints will respond with 403 response codes when the requested action is unauthorized by the authorization delegate.

Fedora Administrators (fedoraAdmin user role)

The authorization delegate is not consulted when servlet credentials identify a client with the fedoraAdmin role. When the container has authenticated the connected client as a fedoraAdmin, all actions are permitted and PEP is bypassed.

FedoraAuthorizationDelegate Implementations

There are three reference implementations available: 

• WebAC Authorization Delegate
• [Deprecated] Basic Role-based Authorization Delegate - An authorization delegate that operates on three fixed roles that may be assigned throughout the repository tree. (reader, writer, admin)
• [Deprecated] XACML Authorization Delegate

You can also create an authorization delegate implementation and perform security checks differently, possibly including calls to remote services.

Configuration

Two files contain the configuration options for authorization delegates:

• repo.xml:  the global repository configuration file.  Three beans enable the PEP extension:
  
  • modeshapeRepoFactory:  should contain a dependency on the authenticationProvider bean
  • authenticationProvider:  should specify the ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider class, so that the servlet container handles authentication
    
    • This bean should have a property "fad" that points to the fad bean, to enable the servlet container authentication provider to use the authorization delegate
  • fad: should point to your class with the authorization delegate implementation 
• repository.json:  the ModeShape configuration file.  It contains a security section, where the internal session authentication between Fedora and the ModeShape storage layer is configured.  Note that the roles configured here do not apply to end user authentication and authorization..

Step-by-step Configuration

1. Open the repo.xml file in your Fedora web application.
2. Add your authorization delegate implementation as a bean in this file and give it the ID of "fad". Your authorization delegate bean may include more specific configuration details than the example.
3. Now add the Fedora ModeShape Authentication Provider bean. (see repo.xml example)
4. Make sure that your modeshapeRepofactory bean has the depends-on attribute pointing at the authenticationProvider (see repo.xml example).
5. Open your repository.json file.
6. Add org.fcrepo.auth.ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider as a provider in the security section. (see repository.json example)

<bean name="modeshapeRepofactory" class="org.fcrepo.kernel.spring.ModeShapeRepositoryFactoryBean"
  depends-on="authenticationProvider">
    <property name="repositoryConfiguration" value="${fcrepo.modeshape.configuration:repository.json}" />
</bean>
<bean name="fad" class="your.own.implementation"/>
<bean name="authenticationProvider" class="org.fcrepo.auth.ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider">
  <property name="fad" ref="fad"/>
</bean>

"security" : {
  "anonymous" : {
    "roles" : ["readonly","readwrite","admin"],
    "useOnFailedLogin" : false
  },
  "providers" : [
    { "classname" : "org.fcrepo.auth.ServletContainerAuthenticationProvider" }
  ]
},