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Purpose

Secondary user store configurations can only be kept as XML files, under repository/tenants/<id>/userstores/, which ties them to a node's file system. This lets them be kept in the shared database instead.

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Approach

The table. UM_SECONDARY_USER_STORE is added to all nine dialect scripts under distribution/kernel/carbon-home/dbscripts/. It belongs in the kernel because a product takes its shared database scripts straight from the kernel distribution, so this is the only place the table can be declared. UM_DOMAIN_NAME + UM_TENANT_ID is the key.

Reading it. JDBCTenantManager.setSecondaryUserStoreConfig() scans the tenant's userstores directory while the realm configuration is built, and that scan — not the deployment engine — is what makes a file based secondary user store resolvable for a tenant. It now reads the table instead when SecondaryUserStorePersistenceType in carbon.xml is database, so a database held configuration reaches the realm by the same route. Absent or any other value leaves the directory as the only source.

The read borrows the caller's open connection, since taking a second one from the same pool stalls concurrent tenant loads once the pool is saturated. A database without the new table is skipped at debug level, so tenant loading never fails because it is absent.

Related PRs

The writer lives in carbon-identity-framework and is the other half of this change; its PR is linked in a comment below. This PR is the dependency — the framework side cannot resolve a tenant's database held user store without it.

Migrations

The table must exist in the shared database before the switch is turned on.

An existing deployment is unaffected while it is off: the directory scan is unchanged and the table is never read. Once it is on, the directory is not read at all, so any configuration still on disk stops being served for that tenant. Moving those configurations into the table is handled separately.

Automation tests

None added. JDBCTenantManager has no existing test class, and the new code is a JDBC read feeding UserStoreConfigXMLProcessor, so a meaningful test needs a seeded database rather than a mock. Happy to add one if wanted.

Test environment

Built with JDK 11, verified on a WSO2 Identity Server 7.4.0-SNAPSHOT pack (JDK 21, macOS, H2) with these classes swapped in.

With the switch on, a tenant carrying both a file only user store and rows in the table resolved only the rows: the file stayed on disk, its domain was gone from the realm, and the database held stores continued to serve users. With the switch off, the same tenant resolved the file based store exactly as before.

Security checks

  • Followed secure coding standards? yes
  • Ran FindSecurityBugs plugin and verified report? no
  • Confirmed that this PR doesn't commit any keys, passwords, tokens, usernames, or other secrets? yes

The stored configuration is the same document that is written to disk today, so UserStoreConfigXMLProcessor.setSecretResolver() applies to it unchanged.

Documentation

Not written yet. The new table has to appear in the shared database schema reference, and SecondaryUserStorePersistenceType needs documenting alongside it.

Developer Checklist (Mandatory)

  • Complete the Developer Checklist in the related product-is issue.

Not done — no product-is issue has been raised. Note for the reviewer that there is migration impact; see Migrations.

Release note

Secondary user store configurations can now be kept in the shared database, in the new UM_SECONDARY_USER_STORE table, selected with SecondaryUserStorePersistenceType in carbon.xml.

Training

N/A

Certification

N/A — an internal persistence option with no change to any administrator facing concept.

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Samples

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  • New Features
    • Secondary user-store configurations can now be loaded from the database when database persistence is configured; file-based loading remains the default.
    • Database storage for secondary user-store configurations is supported across the available database platforms.
    • The database table must be created before enabling database persistence.

The change adds a database table for tenant-scoped secondary user-store configurations and a setting to select database persistence. When database persistence is selected, JDBCTenantManager loads configurations from the table instead of the tenant’s userstores directory.

Changes: Secondary user-store loading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Storage schema and tenant query
core/org.wso2.carbon.user.core/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/user/core/tenant/TenantConstants.java, distribution/kernel/carbon-home/dbscripts/*.sql
Database scripts add UM_SECONDARY_USER_STORE, with a primary key on UM_ID and a uniqueness constraint on (UM_DOMAIN_NAME, UM_TENANT_ID). TenantConstants adds a query for a tenant’s domain names and configuration data.
Persistence selection
core/org.wso2.carbon.user.core/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/user/core/tenant/TenantConstants.java, distribution/kernel/carbon-home/repository/conf/carbon.xml, distribution/kernel/carbon-home/repository/resources/conf/templates/repository/conf/carbon.xml.j2
SecondaryUserStorePersistenceType selects database persistence when set to database. The template emits the setting when configured. The documentation describes file as the default and states that database mode does not read the tenant’s userstores directory.
Load configurations into the realm chain
core/org.wso2.carbon.user.core/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/user/core/tenant/JDBCTenantManager.java
When database persistence is selected, setSecondaryUserStoreConfig loads configurations from the database instead of reading files. It parses stored XML, sets the tenant ID, and appends valid configurations. It skips domains already in the realm chain, null streams, and configurations that cannot be built. SQL and row errors are logged. The caller retains ownership of the connection.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: madurangasiriwardena

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f85f6

The reported tenant-loading failure and documentation mismatch are not present in the reviewed code. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 517b0

Tenant filtering and existing configuration validation are preserved. However, the new persistent configuration is not covered by core tenant-deletion routines, and database failures can leave authentication stores missing or only partly loaded. External configuration-writing controls and upgrade procedures remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new table has no tenant foreign key or automatic cleanup, while both core tenant-deletion paths and deleteTenantUMData omit it. These routines therefore leave tenant-owned configuration behind. If a tenant is subsequently created with the same numeric ID, the new reader can attach the residual configuration to that tenant. External cleanup could prevent this outcome, but no such lifecycle contract was available.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: The loader links each accepted configuration into the live configuration chain before completing its database read. A later result-set SQL failure leaves those links intact despite rollback; an earlier SQL failure leaves database-backed stores absent. Both cases continue tenant loading with only debug-level SQL reporting. This extends the existing per-store tolerance to shared-database failures without distinguishing file-only compatibility from incomplete activation of database-backed authentication sources.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A valid row influences the matching tenant's authentication-store construction on nodes reading that shared database. A writer able to choose arbitrary tenant IDs could target multiple tenants in that database, but no unprivileged row-writing path was established. Database access alone is not evidence of a newly gained privilege over the base deployment.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported lifecycle risk is residual configuration being rebound through numeric tenant-ID reuse. The creation API accepts a supplied positive ID once no tenant currently owns it, while the new reader keys only on that ID. This requires privileged creation or recovery activity and absent external cleanup; it is not a verified tenant-to-tenant takeover.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Tenant-filtered reads and existing class/domain/property checks constrain the database-to-realm transition. Files precede database rows, and the existing consumer rejects later duplicate domains. However, it constructs a candidate manager before checking duplication, so duplicate rejection is not a guarantee against initialization side effects. Writer-side authorization remains outside the available source.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Transient database failure or incomplete schema rollout can make nodes initialize different subsets of configured authentication stores without a propagated loading failure. Per-row validation limits malformed-row impact, but does not provide a complete snapshot, retry or recovery contract for database-backed realm activation.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define and verify the shared reader/writer lifecycle contract: authorized tenant ownership on writes, deletion of tenant-owned rows, safe ID reuse, and explicit schema upgrade/rollback ownership. For database-backed deployments, distinguish intentional file-only fallback from failed activation and publish a completed configuration snapshot rather than retaining a partially appended one.
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The framework side of this change is wso2/carbon-identity-framework#8361 — it writes the configurations this PR reads, and registers them with the super tenant realm. That PR depends on this one and should merge after it.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The new config-building helper hardcodes a / path separator that breaks database-backed store loading on Windows, plus minor convention deviations in connection handling and the Informix script.

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What changed in this PR

This PR lets a tenant's secondary user store configurations be stored in the shared database instead of only as XML files on disk, which better suits clustered/containerised deployments where nodes are replaceable and share a database. It adds a new UM_SECONDARY_USER_STORE table to all nine kernel database scripts and extends JDBCTenantManager to read those rows while a tenant's realm configuration chain is built, appending them immediately after the existing userstores directory scan. The read is intentionally lenient: an absent table (database not yet migrated) is skipped at debug level so tenant loading never fails. The corresponding writer lives in carbon-identity-framework and is out of scope for this repository.

Changes:

  • Add the UM_SECONDARY_USER_STORE table (keyed by UM_ID, unique on UM_DOMAIN_NAME + UM_TENANT_ID) to all nine dialect scripts.
  • Add setSecondaryUserStoreConfigFromDatabase() and a buildUserStoreConfiguration() helper to JDBCTenantManager that build realm configs from the stored XML and append them to the chain, setting the tenant id explicitly.
  • Add the GET_SECONDARY_USER_STORES_SQL query constant to TenantConstants.
File Description
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​postgresql.sql New table using BYTEA, IF NOT EXISTS.
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​oracle.sql New table using BLOB, terminated with /.
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​oracle_rac.sql New table using BLOB, terminated with /.
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​mysql.sql New table using LONGBLOB, InnoDB, IF NOT EXISTS.
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​mysql_cluster.sql New table using LONGBLOB, NDB, IF NOT EXISTS.
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​mssql.sql New table using VARBINARY(MAX) guarded by an IF NOT EXISTS object check.
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​informix.sql New table using BLOB; uses plain CREATE TABLE (inconsistent with sibling KEY_STORE).
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​h2.sql New table using BLOB, IF NOT EXISTS.
distribution/​kernel/​carbon-home/​dbscripts/​db2.sql New table using BLOB, terminated with /.
core/​.../​tenant/​TenantConstants.java Adds the GET_SECONDARY_USER_STORES_SQL query constant.
core/​.../​tenant/​JDBCTenantManager.java Reads DB-stored configs and appends them to the tenant's realm chain; adds a helper to build realm configs from persisted XML.

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- Around line 1346-1354: Update buildUserStoreConfiguration to construct the
UserStoreConfigXMLProcessor filename with File.separator instead of a hard-coded
slash, and replace dots in domainName with underscores before appending the XML
extension.
- Around line 1294-1296: Use getDBConnection() for the connection that executes
GET_SECONDARY_USER_STORES_SQL, and roll it back in a finally block before it
closes so rollback runs after both successful and failed queries.
- Around line 1308-1318: Update setSecondaryUserStoreConfigFromDatabase to
receive the root RealmConfiguration and check each database row’s domain against
every domain in the existing secondary-realm chain before appending it. Skip
rows whose domain already exists, preserving the file-based configuration;
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sadilchamishka force-pushed the feat/secondary-user-store-config-table branch from da0fca0 to f85f68a Compare October 22, 2026 06:06
@sadilchamishka sadilchamishka changed the title Add UM_SECONDARY_USER_STORE and read it when building tenant realms Keep secondary user store configurations in the shared database Oct 22, 2026
A tenant's secondary user stores can only be kept as XML files under its
userstores directory, which ties them to a node's file system. They can
now be kept in the shared database instead.

UM_SECONDARY_USER_STORE is declared in all nine dialect scripts under
distribution/kernel/carbon-home/dbscripts. It belongs in the kernel
because a product takes its shared database scripts straight from the
kernel distribution, so this is the only place the table can be declared.

JDBCTenantManager.setSecondaryUserStoreConfig() scans the tenant's
userstores directory while the realm configuration is being built, and
that scan, not the deployment engine, is what makes a file based
secondary user store resolvable for a tenant. It now reads the table
instead when SecondaryUserStorePersistenceType in carbon.xml is set to
"database", so a configuration held in the database reaches the realm by
the same route. Absent or any other value leaves the directory as the
only source, so an existing deployment is unaffected and the table is
never touched.

The read borrows the connection the caller is already holding, since
taking a second one from the same pool stalls concurrent tenant loads
once the pool is saturated, and a database that has not had the new
script applied is skipped at debug level so tenant loading never fails
because the table is absent.
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sadilchamishka force-pushed the feat/secondary-user-store-config-table branch from 94086a5 to dba9444 Compare October 22, 2026 13:40
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