[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-2854) '**' role incorrectly returns false from isUserInRole when user is authenticated

[Stuart Douglas (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-2854?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stuart Douglas reassigned WFLY-2854:
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    Assignee: Stuart Douglas  (was: Darran Lofthouse)

    
> '**' role incorrectly returns false from isUserInRole when user is authenticated
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>
>                 Key: WFLY-2854
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-2854
>             Project: WildFly
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: Security
>    Affects Versions: 8.0.0.CR1
>            Reporter: arjan tijms
>            Assignee: Stuart Douglas
>              Labels: role, roles, security, servlet
>
> When authentication has taken place in a web application such that {{HttpServletRequest#getUserPrincipal}} does not return null, testing for role '**' using {{HttpServletRequest#isUserInRole}} returns false.
> This is not correct. According to Servlet 13.3:
> {quote}
> {noformat}
> If the role-name of the security-role to be tested is “**”, 
> and the application has NOT declared an application security-role with 
> role-name “**”, isUserInRole must only return true if the user has been
> authenticated;
> {noformat}
> {quote}
> This is demonstrated by the following test:
> https://github.com/arjantijms/javaee7-samples/blob/master/jacc/contexts/src/test/java/org/javaee7/jacc/contexts/SubjectFromPolicyContextTest.java#L76

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