[undertow-dev] Configure authentication mechanisms

[Darran Lofthouse]

Lets not start a new discussion on this, the discussion has already 
started on the AS7 dev list as this is a WildFly integration issue.

Regards,
Darran Lofthouse.


On 24/04/13 22:04, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> If you are configuring Undertow programmatically you need to add a
> io.undertow.security.handlers.AuthenticationMechanismsHandler to the
> handler chain that has your authentication mechanism.
>
> Unfortunately we don't have a way of hooking this up into the Wildfly
> config yet, although it will not be a very big job. Regarding config
> options for AS7 there are a few possibilities:
>
> 1) Allow the user to specify the class name and module in JBoss Web to
> configure per app, and same in standalone.xml for global authenticators.
>
> 2) Introduce a servlet loader based mechanism to allow mechanisms to be
> loaded and associated with a simple name. This name could then be
> specified in the web.xml login config. In the subsystem you could list
> all the modules that you want to load authentication mechanisms from.
> This has the advantage that internal class names do not leak out into
> config.
>
> 3) Some other way??
>
> I am leaning towards option 2. I think it should be possible to get this
> integrated into the next Undertow release early next week.
>
> Stuart
>
> Anil Saldhana wrote:
>> Hi,
>>      I am trying to figure out how to set up the authentication mechanisms
>> in undertow. If I write an authentication mechanism involving saml, how
>> do I make the web apps using that mechanism.
>>
>> Any links to test cases.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anil
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