Cannot add Elytron jdbc-realm using embedded server in admin mode ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFCORE-4551 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-4551 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Security Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Final, 9.0.1.Final Reporter: David Gill Assignee: Darran Lofthouse Priority: Major On a fresh a Wildfly install (tested on 16.final and 17.final) the following jboss-cli commands will fail to add an Elytron jdbc-realm to an embedded server using the ExampleDS data source that is predefined out-of-the-box: {noformat} embed-server --server-config=standalone.xml /subsystem=elytron/jdbc-realm=MyRealm:add(principal-query=[{sql="SELECT * FROM Users WHERE username = ?", data-source=ExampleDS}]) {noformat} Resulting in this error: {noformat} ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (pool-3-thread-1) WFLYCTL0013: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([ ("subsystem" => "elytron"), ("jdbc-realm" => "MyRealm") ]) - failure description: { "WFLYCTL0412: Required services that are not installed:" => ["org.wildfly.data-source.ExampleDS"], "WFLYCTL0180: Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => ["org.wildfly.security.security-realm.MyRealm is missing [org.wildfly.data-source.ExampleDS]"] } { "outcome" => "failed", "failure-description" => { "WFLYCTL0412: Required services that are not installed:" => ["org.wildfly.data-source.ExampleDS"], "WFLYCTL0180: Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => ["org.wildfly.security.security-realm.MyRealm is missing [org.wildfly.data-source.ExampleDS]"] }, "rolled-back" => true } {noformat} If you instead embed the server using {{--admin-only=false}} then the jdbc-realm will be added successfully. A workaround seems to be to first add and remove some other type of realm with the same name as the jdbc-realm you want to add, here for example using an identity-realm: {noformat} embed-server --server-config=standalone.xml # First add & remove a dummy realm with the same name as the jdbc-realm you want to add /subsystem=elytron/identity-realm=MyRealm:add(identity='dummy identity realm') /subsystem=elytron/identity-realm=MyRealm:remove # Now the jdbc-realm will add successfully /subsystem=elytron/jdbc-realm=MyRealm:add(principal-query=[{sql="SELECT * FROM Users WHERE username = ?", data-source=ExampleDS}]) {noformat}