I understand that user and roles in wso2is are use for management the carbon console, how can i use roles and permissions for use in my web app, for example, defined roles and permission and apply policies using xacml ?
You can follow this documentation to set up role-based authorization for your application.
For the permission-based authorization, you can assign those permissions to the role and achieve it.
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I have installed Wso2 api manager and am trying to set up authentication and authorization via Api manager. I can't figure out how to configure certain users who will be able to login through the app. Currently, all users who are in user story are allowed to login. I need to restrict the ability to login to the app for a certain range of users. How can this be done?
You can achieve this by adding roles to the particular users. Refer to this doc https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/administer/managing-users-and-roles/managing-user-roles/#managing-user-roles
You need to configure the roles and permissions according to your use case:
Create a role (eg: testRole) and assign required permissions except for the login permission(Admin Permissions > Login) to that role [1].
Create a new user(eg: testUser) and assign the testRole to that user[2].
Now the testUser that you have created has no login permissions to the app.
[1] https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/administer/managing-users-and-roles/managing-user-roles/#create-user-roles
[2] https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/administer/managing-users-and-roles/managing-users/#adding-a-new-user
Is there a way to grant admin access to a third party in AWS without manually creating IAM role etc, purely via OAuth flow or similar?
Context: making an app that simplifies AWS account management, and want to make the UX to "connect to my account" as simple as possible. Failed to find anything like that in AWS docs. Want the app to be able to provision and manage resources, run terraform etc.
Check this out: Identity Providers and Federation. You will still have to create pre-defined IAM roles to define what permission users will assume
Yes it's doable. You do need to create IAM roles, if you want to give your users access to everything just create an admin role with permissions of ':' on all resources.
Then you should set up some type of SAML server, active directory federation services comes with everything out of the box. You can look for some open source SAML servers.
Then you have to setup SAML federation between your user account and your SAML backend.
At my employer, we have an AWS account that uses SAML 2.0 to federate in your user access from the company SSO login to the AWS console. The net effect is that everyone has admin access. Is there a way to place federated users into different IAM groups, thereby giving least privilege access?
The answer we came up with is that all federated users would have very limited access to the console with no programmatic access. Then, create separate IAM users for everyone for programmatic access (no console login) and to place these separate users into IAM groups with varying access. Would this method be considered best practice or is there a better way to accomplish what we would like to do in this case?
The best practices is to use groups to set permissions (policies) for each class of user.
Grant users SSO access to AWS accounts in your organization by
selecting the AWS accounts from a list populated by AWS SSO, and then
selecting users or groups from your directory and the permissions you
want to grant them.
AWS Single Sign-On
Your SSO SAML 2.0 provider should be able to pass role information to AWS at sign-in. You can then have corresponding IAM roles setup in AWS.
We use Azure AD for SSO and set it up using this example: https://blog.flux7.com/aws-best-practice-azure-ad-saml-authentication-configuration-for-aws-console
Basically you create Azure AD Security Groups and map them to IAM roles.
I am setting up an AWS Account, the account will be used by an organization of employees for EC2 use/experimentation. Obviously, I do not want to distribute the root login info or set up one single IAM user for everyone to use. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to manage creating individual IAM users for everyone on a regular basis.
So, is there a way to auto-create IAM users based on a given email's domain on their first login attempt? The users should have read-only roles to begin, then an Administrator could give more roles as needed to each user. I am open to suggestions, perhaps lambda functions or linking to an identity provider?
Keep in mind that these new IAM users need to have access to the AWS Management Console, this is not necessarily intended for login to applications hosted on AWS.
Update:
Moving forward using this AWS Management Console Federation Proxy Sample found in Amazon's code reference, using with Microsoft Exchange hosted email.
If your existing identity provider supports SAML2 Federation, you can set it up to login to the AWS Management Console.
For more details refer Enabling SAML 2.0 Federated Users to Access the AWS Management Console.
Else you can implement a custom Federation Broker to return an URL to the user, after they authenticate with their corporate credentials.
For more details refer Creating a URL that Enables Federated Users to Access the AWS Management Console (Custom Federation Broker).
I login to AWS with my Active Directory account in my company. We are using federated login, as described here:
Federated Users and Roles
Federated users don't have permanent identities in your AWS account the way that IAM users do. To assign permissions to federated users, you can create an entity referred to as a role and define permissions for the role. When a federated user signs in to AWS, the user is associated with the role and is granted the permissions that are defined in the role. For more information, see Creating a Role for a Third-Party Identity Provider (Federation).
My company has a Security Token Service (STS) which is a SAML provider.
I can use that to login to AWS management console, but can I login to AWS CLI as well with my federated login?
saml2aws can be used for AWS CLI for the federated user.
Refer https://github.com/Versent/saml2aws this is based on python code from https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/security/how-to-implement-federated-api-and-cli-access-using-saml-2-0-and-ad-fs/
You can use the below command to login to default IDP AWS account, your organization will provide you the IDP account name.
saml2aws --idp-account="default" --username=USERNAME --password=PASSWORD
For using the federated user for automation, you need to use exec
saml2aws --idp-account="default" --username=USERNAME --password=PASSWORD exec command
Yes, it is possible, however it's not straight forward. There is a rather long blog post in the AWS Security Blog explaining how to be able to use the CLI as SAML-federated user: https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/security/how-to-implement-federated-api-and-cli-access-using-saml-2-0-and-ad-fs/