| Organizations are a feature of JasperReports Server commercial editions. Skip this section if you have JasperReports Server community edition. |
In an architecture that allows multiple organizations, all users and roles except for system administrators and system roles belong to an organization. In turn, the organization determines the folders that the user may access in the repository. Therefore, the final part of mapping is determining an organization ID for the external user and roles, based on the user’s RDN in the directory.
If your JasperReports Server supports multiple organizations, there are two ways to set the user organization for external users:
| • | If your JasperReports Server has multiple organizations, but you want all users to be in the same organization, use the externalTenantSetupProcessor bean to specify the organization, as described in Mapping to a Single Organization. |
If your JasperReports Server deployment only supports a single organization (all community deployments and some professional editions), you do not need to set organization information.
Mapping to Multiple Organizations
LDAP is well suited to mapping users into organizations, because LDAP itself has a hierarchical structure of user entries that is often used to represent separate organizations, such as the internal departments of a company. The LDAP tree structure is reflected in the elements of the RDN of each user entry, and the server maps this RDN into an organization or hierarchy of organizations for the external user. For example, the users uid=jack,ou=audit,ou=finance,dc=example,dc=com and uid=jill,ou=accounting,ou=finance,dc=example,dc=com could be mapped to the organizations audit and accounting, respectively, both of which are sub-organizations of finance.
In order to ensure consistency, the server must create the organization of any external user if the organization does not already exist. The server also creates any organization that does not exist in the hierarchy of organizations mapped from the user RDN. To avoid “stray” organizations that are outside of your intended hierarchy, test your mapping against all potential user DNs in your LDAP directory.
Organizations that are created during external user login have an administrator with a default password. As of JasperReports Server 6.0, the admin username and password is configurable. See Setting Up Default Admins for Organizations for more information. For security reasons, you should change the default password of any organization admin that is created. See Initialization of JasperReports Server for External Users for a process to initialize the server, including organization admins, before going into production with external authentication.
Setting Up Organization Mapping
Specify the following information in the ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean to map the RDN of the user to a hierarchy of organizations in JasperReports Server:
| • | excludeRootDn property – Whether the base DN, also called root DN, should be mapped along with the RDN. For example, if the property list for organizationRDNs contains dc and you do not exclude the base DN of dc=example,dc=com, the base DN maps to the following: the organization ID example nested inside the organization ID com nested inside the specified root organization. The base DN is part of the LDAP URL specified in Setting the LDAP Connection Parameters. |
| • | organizationRDNs property – A list of attribute names that determines which RDN values should be mapped to organization names. The names in this list determine the RDNs that creates a hierarchy of organizations in JasperReports Server. For example, if you specify the value ou, each RDN with ou=<name> creates a level in the hierarchy of mapped organizations. If this list is blank or none of the attributes match the RDN of the user entry, the defaultOrganization property determines the organization name. |
| • | rootOrganizationId property – The ID of an organization under which any mapped organizations are created as sub-organizations. If the root organization ID is absent or blank (""), the server creates the organization(s) mapped in organizationRDNs as children of the default organization shipped with JasperReports Server. |
| • | defaultOrganization property (optional) – The ID of an organization assigned to users that would otherwise be mapped to a null organization ID. |
| If excludeRootDn = true, defaultOrganization = "" or is absent, and no organizationRDNs match in the DN of the user, then the user will have a null organization ID. The null organization ID is usually reserved for special users such as the system administrator and allows access the repository folder of all other organizations. To avoid this mapping, specify a value for defaultOrganization or ensure that every user has one of the organizationRDNs. |
The following example shows the syntax of the ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean and its properties:
<bean id="ldapExternalTenantProcessor" class="com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.multipleTenancy.security. externalAuth.processors.ldap.LdapExternalTenantProcessor" parent="abstractExternalProcessor"> <property name="ldapContextSource" ref="ldapContextSource" /> <property name="multiTenancyService"> <ref bean="internalMultiTenancyService"/></property> <property name="excludeRootDn" value="false"/> <!-- only following RDNs matter in creating the organization hierarchy --> <property name="organizationRDNs"> <list> <value>o</value> <value>ou</value> </list> </property> <property name="rootOrganizationId" value="organization_1"/> <property name="defaultOrganization" value="#{configurationBean.tenantIdNotSupportedSymbols}"/>[/code] ...</bean>[/code] |
For example, given the ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean configuration above, an LDAP user with the DN uid=jack,ou=audit,ou=finance, dc=example,dc=com is placed in a organization named audit which is a child of an organization named finance, which in turn is a child of organization_1. This example illustrates that it is not possible to map only one of the two RDN components if they have the same attribute. In other words, the mapping mechanism does not let you choose to create only the audit or the finance organization; both are created if you specify ou in the list of organizationRDNs.
| By default, the sample-applicationContext-externalAuth-LDAP-mt.xml file maps users to multiple organizations. If you wish to map all users to a single organization, see Mapping to a Single Organization |
Setting Up Default Admins for Organizations
In a multi-organization deployment, JasperReports Server creates a jasperadmin user whenever you create a new organization. The jasperadmin user is also given a standard default password. As of JasperReports Server 6.0, if you are creating multiple organizations using external authentication, you can set a different default password for jasperadmin, remove the jasperadmin user, and/or create additional default users in each new organization created by external authentication. You can also optionally encrypt the password in the configuration files. See the JasperReports Server Administrator Guide for more information on default users in every organization.
| For security reasons, you should change the default password of any organization admin that is created. See Initialization of JasperReports Server for External Users for a process to initialize the server, including organization admins, before going into production with external authentication. |
To set up admin users:
| 1. | Open your sample-applicationContext-xxx-externalAuth.xml file in a text editor. |
| 2. | Locate the externalTenantSetupUsers property in the ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean. |
| 3. | The sample contains a bean of class ExternalTenantSetupUser already configured for jasperadmin. |
<property name="externalTenantSetupUsers"> <list> <bean class="com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.multipleTenancy.security. externalAuth.processors.MTAbstractExternalProcessor.ExternalTenantSetupUser"> <property name="username" value="${new.tenant.user.name.1}"/> <property name="fullName" value="${new.tenant.user.fullname.1}"/> <property name="password" value="${new.tenant.user.password.1}"/> <property name="emailAddress" value="${new.tenant.user.email.1}"/> <property name="roleSet"> <set> <value>ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR</value> <value>ROLE_USER</value> </set> </property> </bean> </list></property>[/code] |
| 4. | To create additional admin users for each external organization, create a bean of class ExternalTenantSetupUser for each admin user you want. |
<bean class="com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.multipleTenancy.security. externalAuth.processors.MTAbstractExternalProcessor.ExternalTenantSetupUser"> <property name="username" value="${new.tenant.user.name.2}"/> <property name="fullName" value="${new.tenant.user.fullname.2}"/> <property name="password" value="${new.tenant.user.password.2}"/> <property name="emailAddress" value="${new.tenant.user.email.2}"/>[/code] |
<property name="roleSet"> <set> <value>ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR</value> <value>ROLE_USER</value> </set> </property> </bean>[/code] |
| 5. | The ${...} syntax above references values configured in the <js‑install>buildomaticjs.config.properties file. To set these values, open <js‑install>buildomaticjs.config.properties and edit the entries there. |
new.tenant.user.name.1=jasperadminnew.tenant.user.fullname.1=jasperadminnew.tenant.user.password.1=mynewpasswordnew.tenant.user.email.1=[/code] new.tenant.user.name.2=anotheradminnew.tenant.user.fullname.2=Another Adminnew.tenant.user.password.2=anotherpasswordnew.tenant.user.email.2=[/code] |
Note: The property names, for example, new.tenant.user.name.1, are arbitrary. You can use any name for each property as long as the name in the applicationContext-externalAuth-xxx.xml file matches the name in the js.config.properties file.
| 6. | If you want to obfuscate the default passwords in the js.config.properties files, encrypt them as described in the JasperReports Server Administrator Guide. Obfuscation must be implemented before you install the server. |
| 7. | If you do not want to obfuscate default passwords, you can eliminate the reference to js.config.properties and instead configure the values directly in the externalTenantSetupUsers property in the applicationContext-externalAuth-xxx.xml file. For example: |
<property name="username" value="anotheradmin"/> <property name="fullName" value="Another Admin"/> <property name="password" value="anotherpassword"/> <property name="emailAddress" value=""/>[/code] |
Mapping Organization Names
You can optionally use the organizationMap property in the ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean to map organization names extracted from your external authority to organization names in JasperReports Server. To do this, create a key/value pair for each organization you want to map, specifying the external organization name as the key and the organization name in JasperReports Server as the value. When mapping organizations, the server determines the mapped name and uses it as the name, ID, and description of the organization.
For example, the following would map users in External_Org_1 in the external authority to JRS_Org_1 in JasperReports Server and users in External_Org_2 in the external authority to JRS_Org_2 in JasperReports Server:
<property name="organizationMap"> <map> <entry key="External_Org_1" value="JRS_Org_1" /> <entry key="External_Org_2" value="JRS_Org_2" /> </map> </property>[/code] |
The organizationMap property is optional. Any organization in your external authority that is not listed in organizationMap is mapped to an organization of the same name in JasperReports Server. However, if an organization in your external authority contains characters which are not supported, each sequence of unsupported characters is replaced with a single underscore. For example, Human Resources maps to Human_Resources.
The tenantIdNotSupportedSymbols property of the configurationBean bean in the applicationContext.xml file lists the unsupported characters, including spaces and the following characters: |, &, *, ?, <, >, /, , ~, !, #, $, %, ^, [, ], or a space. If you want to list additional characters that should be replaced with an underscore, you can add them in this bean. However, we do not recommend removing any of the pre-defined characters, as JasperReports Server may not handle them correctly.
Mapping to a Single Organization
If you have a commercial version of JasperReports Server, you can choose to map all external users to a single organization; for example, in the following cases:
| • | You have a commercial JasperReports Server deployment that does not implement multiple organizations, but instead uses the default organization. This includes commercial versions that are licensed for a single organization. In this case, externally authenticated users must be mapped to the default organization. |
| • | You have multiple organizations in JasperReports Server, but still want all external users to be placed in a single organization. |
The following steps show how to map all external users to a single organization using the sample-applicationContext-externalAuth-LDAP-mt.xml file:
| 8. | In sample-applicationContext-externalAuth-LDAP-mt.xml, locate the first instance of the ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean and comment the bean out. |
| 9. | Locate the second instance of the ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean and uncomment it. |
| 10. | Set the defaultOrganization property to the organization you want assigned to all external LDAP users. |
| The ldapExternalTenantProcessor bean is not available in the community edition. You do not need to set the organization in the community edition. ldapExternalTenantProcessor is an example of a processor. For more information about processors, see Creating a Custom Processor. |
The following example places all external users in the default organization, organization_1.
<bean id="ldapExternalTenantProcessor" class="com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.multipleTenancy.security. externalAuth.processors.ldap.LdapExternalTenantProcessor" parent="abstractExternalProcessor"> <property name="ldapContextSource" ref="ldapContextSource"/> <property name="multiTenancyService"><ref bean="internalMultiTenancyService"/></property> <property name="excludeRootDn" value="true"/> <property name="defaultOrganization" value="organization_1"/></bean>[/code] |
| Make sure to specify a value for the defaultOrganization. If defaultOrganization is left empty, users may be mapped to the null organization id. This id is usually reserved for special users such as the system administrator and allows access to the repository folder of all other organizations. |
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