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

[David M. Lloyd]

On 11/13/2011 12:49 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Been thinking about the new username/password requirements.
>
> 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.

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- DML