[jboss-as7-dev] Out of the Box - Management API Security

[Darran Lofthouse]

Here is a response from Jason on a PicketBox thread discussing modules 
normally used for out of the box security: -

> We need to be very careful about how user management is done, if it should be done at all for 7.0. Anything that stores state has to somehow be replicated across all the hosts in the domain. This opens the door to all kinds of problems:
>
>     * Do you allow distribution of keystores which may have private keys? (very dangerous)
>     * Do you store passwords in the domain.xml, and do you obfuscate them giving a false sense of security?
>     * If it's not in domain.xml how is the state going to be replicated in a way thats consistent with domain.xml?
>
> Also note that anyone serious about security, is probably going to prefer a centralized security server over a user password distribution model. In this case all of the work we do here would go to waste.
>
> In the meeting in Madison, we talked about how the likely easiest thing to do was to just have the domain.xml REFER to whatever the security store is, and then let the user decide how it gets on the box if it needs to be. They already have to install AS for every location, so that might as well drop a properties file if thats what they are using.

http://community.jboss.org/thread/162307?tstart=0




On 02/07/2011 02:26 PM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
>    From the requirements the APIs used to access the server need to be
> secured and there also needs to be the possibility of integrating with
> existing infrastructure - however what do we need for the out of the box
> experience?
>
> Within prior AS releases default security configuration would generally
> be provided using login modules that read the users, their password and
> their roles from properties files.  These files would be static and for
> updates they would need to be edited by hand.
>
> For AS7 would we also use a statically defined approach like this or for
> the out of the box security configuration would we be looking for an
> approach where the users and their roles can also be configured through
> the management APIs?
>
> Regards,
> Darran Lofthouse.
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