[jboss-as7-dev] 7.1.0. Beta Bug on CLI Authentication ?

[Jason T. Greene]

On 11/23/11 6:17 AM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 12:10 PM, Heiko Braun wrote:
>>
>>
>> AFAIK the CLI checks if you are on localhost. In that case the authentication is not required.
>
> That is correct, I am just writing an article to send round with the
> details.
>
> The CLI will have authenticated against the server but as you are local
> to the server it will have used a silent authentication mechanism.
>
>> @Wondering if that works for the console as well?
>
> Unfortunately no the console has a different set of issues as the web
> browser doesn't have access to the filesystem, I am considering if we
> can start the console from a script to pass some form of token but at
> the moment the console does retain the need for a username and password.

We are also considering a first-time token generated and printed to the 
terminal/console log. Then the web page would ask that you cut and paste 
that value, verify it and allow you to create a user.


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Jason T. Greene
JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
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