[wildfly-dev] Permissions in WildFly Core

Tomaž Cerar tomaz.cerar at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 06:19:55 EDT 2015


If we could make it support jboss-permissions.xml without using jboss
metadata
that would solve the extra dependency and not much increase in distro size

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Jason T. Greene <jason.greene at redhat.com>
wrote:

> That might actually be ok, since we aren't talking about a Java API, and
> there are no reps on other specs. However I agree that is wierd.
> Alternatively we could add different format/schema but I suspect it would
> look just like permissions.xml.
>
> On Aug 26, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also AFAIR, security manager subsystem implements EE7 security
> manager(permissions.xml) support.
> and as such doesn't belong to core.
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Brian Stansberry <
> brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/26/15 8:49 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> > Just some data, as I know distribution size is a significant factor in
>> > deciding what goes into WildFly Core:
>> >
>> > The org.wildfly.extension.security.manager module itself is 45KB
>> > unzipped, so not much of a concern.
>> >
>> > However, it depends on org.jboss.metadata.common, which is 475KB and
>> > isn't itself present in WildFly Core.
>>
>> The requirement for org.jboss.metadata.common looks pretty simple to
>> eliminate. It's just using a bit of what looks like easily duplicated
>> utility code.
>>
>> >
>> > All its other deps are present in WildFly Core.
>> >
>> > On 8/26/15 7:38 AM, Josef Cacek wrote:
>> >> Hi *,
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way how to configure Java security permissions in WildFly
>> Core?
>> >> If not, is there any reason why not to move the
>> wildfly-security-manager from WildFly into WildFly Core?
>> >>
>> >> I'm investigating failing tests in WildFly Core testsuite ([1],[2])
>> when security manager is enabled.
>> >>
>> >> The problem is, security manager is in place and I'm not able to
>> define permissions for deployments
>> >> - using policy file (configured by java.security.policy system
>> property) doesn't work for me;
>> >> - putting META-INF/permissions.xml into deployments doesn't help
>> because PermissionsParseProcessor deployment processor is part of
>> wildfly-security-manager (i.e. not in Core) and it is only activated when
>> security-manager subsystem is present.
>> >>
>> >> So the tests fail because of AccessControlExceptions on the server
>> side.
>> >>
>> >> Any thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> As a workaround we can run the Core testsuite against full WildFly and
>> use either in-deployment permissions.xml or configure permissions in
>> subsystem [3] - but both ways have some disadvantages.
>> >> We either have to put "unnecessary" permissions.xml in WFCORE
>> deployments or we have to use too wide minimum-permissions in
>> security-manager subsystem configuration.
>> >>
>> >> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-846
>> >> [2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBEAP-526
>> >> [3]
>> /subsystem=security-manager/deployment-permissions=default:write-attribute(name=minimum-permissions,
>> value=[{class=java.security.AllPermission}])")
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> -- Josef Cacek
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>>
>>
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