Oracle IdCS Tips Part III: Validating user password with the REST API

// jmu, may 2018

var express = require('express');

var app = express();

var https = require('https');

var fs = require('fs');

// this data comes from your IdCS administrator

const client_id = "7x7x38873x3348xxxxe242817x0xx005"

const secret = "8x1xxxxx-x87x-48x7-xxx6-1x2xxxx80x3x"

const idcsHost = 'idcs-xxxxxxxxxx.identity.oraclecloud.com'

//

var userJSONData = {

"mappingAttribute": "userName",

"mappingAttributeValue": "alextorrijo",

"password": "P3rr301234",

"schemas": [

"urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:oracle:idcs:PasswordAuthenticator"

]

};

var userData = JSON.stringify(userJSONData);

var resultado = ""

const tokenData = "grant_type=client_credentials&scope=urn:opc:idm:__myscopes__";

var token = ""

var credentials = Buffer.from(client_id + ":" + secret).toString('base64');

var token_options = {

host: idcsHost,

port: 443,

path: '/oauth2/v1/token',

method: 'POST',

headers: {

"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",

"Authorization": "Basic "+ credentials,

"Accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*"

}

};

app.get('/', function (req, res) {

var x = https.request(token_options,function(res){

res.on('data',function(data){

token = JSON.parse(data).access_token;

fs.appendFile('logfile.log', token + '\r\n', function(err){;});

var validate_pwd_options = {

host: idcsHost,

port: 443,

path: '/admin/v1/PasswordAuthenticator',

method: 'POST',

headers: {

"Content-Type": "application/scim+json",

"Authorization": "Bearer "+ token

}

};

var y = https.request(validate_pwd_options,function(res){

res.on('data',function(data){

fs.appendFile('logfile.log', data + '\r\n', function(err){;});

resultado = data

});

});

y.write(userData);

y.end();

});

});

x.write(tokenData);

x.end();

res.send(resultado);

});

app.listen(3456, function () {

console.log('Example app listening on port 3456!');

});

See also related posts here and here
Enjoy 😉