Re: [jboss-as7-dev] How hard would it be to support key based auth by default to make life simpler and more secure ?

You could just have the app-server automatically generate the keys for you the first time it ever boots (or even every boot cycle). Just have the CLI look at a pre-defined directory for the generated key-pair. THe idea here is that CLI works perfectly out-of-the-box with no config on the same machine as the CLI runs on. What is still protected is a remote machine accessing the app-server. This is fine, IMO. Usability problems still exist though as you would need to import the client-auth key into your browser. But, maybe this is a good thing as it will require the user to think about how they want to secure the app-server. On 11/14/11 6:40 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: >>>> >>>> These will make all examples that uses maven deploy plugin, cli scripts, arquillian, jboss tools etc. to somehow >>>> either tell users to type in their username and full password in clear text in pom.xml and other files. >>>> >>>> Which sounds worse to me than a default locked down to only localhost…but I'm not a security expert :) >>>> >>>> I was wondering how hard it would be to make the authentication support key based auth by default and we make >>>> the tools use ${user.name} and ${user.home}/.jboss/default.pub and .priv (or some other name) for the public/private keys ? >>> >>> You would need a key-based SASL authentication mechanism. There are no >>> standard ones as of right now. If you know of a key-based SASL >>> mechanism that you think we should support, let me know and we'll >>> evaluate it. >> >> We would have to do noauth + SSL + trust. I think it's an option worth considering. The big problem though is that we have to have a setup process to generate the certs, which is greater complexity than the user/pass option. We would have to generate a host key pair and a client key pair. > > > I'm not an expert on these things at all but eclipse uses http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/ to manage and create ssh keys and uses the standard .ssh location's etc. > > Is something additional needed ? > > /max > http://about.me/maxandersen > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jboss-as7-dev mailing list > jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev