[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-3282) HTTP Basic authentication fails due to changed JBossWebRealm defaults (AS6->AS7)

HTTP Basic authentication fails due to changed JBossWebRealm defaults (AS6->AS7) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-3282 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3282 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Web Affects Versions: 7.1.0.CR1b Reporter: Robert Reimann Assignee: Remy Maucherat The change of the JBossWebRealm allRolesMode property from authOnly to strict leads to HTTP Basic authentication failures. Accessing HTTP Basic protected resources always returns a 403 forbidden response when using the security-constraint configuration below which worked well under (JBoss AS4 and AS6). The security-constraint inside the web.xml is defined as follws: {code} <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>protected resources</web-resource-name> <url-pattern>/protected/*</url-pattern> </web-resource-collection> <auth-constraint> <description>any rolle allowed</description> <role-name>*</role-name> </auth-constraint> </security-constraint> {code} Activating trace logging revealed the following message: {code} 13:35:59,019 TRACE [org.jboss.as.web.security.JBossWebRealm] (http-localhost-127.0.0.1-8080-1) hasRole:RealmBase says:false::Authz framework says:true:final=false {code} In AS6 the meaning of <role-name>*</role-name> was determined by the allRolesMode property of the JBossWebRealm which was configured in jbossweb.sar/server.xml and set to authOnly (= Allow any authenticated user) by default. In AS7 the default of allRolesMode seems to be strict (= Use the strict servlet spec interpretation which requires that the user have one of the web-app/security-role/role-name). The workaround to add all security-rolles in the web.xml described in one of the forum references (https://community.jboss.org/message/617196#617196) is no viable option for applications with a large number of dynamically changing roles. So please provide a configuration option for the allRolesMode property to allow for changes of the default behavior and ease the migration from earlier JBoss AS versions.