Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Delegating web auth to a security domain

On 09/12/2012 05:40 PM, Bill Burke wrote: > I've written a very small library that allows you to fully delegate > authentication to a security domain/login module. I implemented this to > support integration with a RESTful token service (Openstack Keystone). > > https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy/tree/master/jaxrs/security/skeleton-... > > AFAICT, you pretty much have to go through the Realm/Security domain > execution path if you want principals and roles set up correctly to work > with EE security. So doing all protocol work in the Valve just wasn't > gonna cut it. This small library tunnels the catalina Request object (so > you can access info not in HTtpServletRequest) as well as a > HttpServletRespones via a ThreadLocal. Thats about it. > > What I'd also like to do is write a web metadata processor that allowed > you to set the auth-method in web.xml to something like: > > <login-config> > <auth-method>Securty Domain</auth-method> > <realm-name>java://jaas/myDomain</realm-name> > </login-config> Remove the java:/jaas prefix. Just keep the domain name. > And it would automatically set up the correct valve and security domain > so you wouldn't have to create a jboss-web.xml. If there is interest > I'll add this and submit a pull request to AS7. Otherwise, I'll just > keep doing what I'm doing. This should help usability.