Access Strategy - Surrogate Authentication

Each surrogate account storage is able to determine the list of impersonatees to enforce authorization rules. Additionally, you may on a per-service level define whether an application is authorized to leverage surrogate authentication. The surrogate access strategy is only activated if the establish authentication and SSO session is one of impersonation.

  • Decide whether the primary user is tagged with enough attributes and entitlements to allow impersonation to execute. In the below example, surrogate access to the application matching testId is allowed only if the authenticated primary user carries an attribute givenName which contains a value of Administrator.

    A sample service definition follows:

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    {
  "@class" : "org.apereo.cas.services.CasRegisteredService",
  "serviceId" : "testId",
  "name" : "testId",
  "id" : 1,
  "accessStrategy" : {
    "@class" : "org.apereo.cas.services.SurrogateRegisteredServiceAccessStrategy",
    "surrogateEnabled" : true,
    "surrogateRequiredAttributes" : {
      "@class" : "java.util.HashMap",
      "givenName" : [ "java.util.HashSet", [ "Administrator" ] ]
    }
  }
}

  • Decide whether the primary user is allowed to go through impersonation via an external Groovy script. A sample service file follows:

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    {
  "@class" : "org.apereo.cas.services.CasRegisteredService",
  "serviceId" : "testId",
  "name" : "testId",
  "id" : 1,
  "accessStrategy" : {
    "@class" : "org.apereo.cas.services.GroovySurrogateRegisteredServiceAccessStrategy",
    "groovyScript": "file:/etc/cas/config/surrogate.groovy"
  }
}

    The configuration of this component qualifies to use the Spring Expression Language syntax. The Groovy script itself may be designed as:

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    import java.util.*

def run(final Object... args) {
    def (principal,principalAttributes,logger) = args
    logger.info("Checking for impersonation authz for $principal...")

    // Decide if impersonation is allowed by returning true...
    if (principal.equals("casuser")) {
        return true
    }
    logger.warn("User is not allowed to proceed with impersonation!")
    return false
}

    The parameters passed are as follows:

    Parameter Description
    principal Primary/Principal user id.
    principalAttributes Principal attributes collected for the primary user.
    logger The object responsible for issuing log messages such as logger.info(...).