[jboss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Expanded Programmatic Security

[brownfielda]

I'm attempting to write a portlet that has some additional internal security features.  The overall goal will be to allow selected access to MBeans on a remote server (for the time being the goal is to restart foreign JVMs on a WAS 5.1 AS).

At any rate, I was hoping to make the security checks internal to the portlet based on a user's JBP roles.  In doing so, I have set up portlet.xml with the following:
. . .
  | <security-role-ref> 
  |     <role-name>MyPortletUser</role-name> 
  |     <role-link>User</role-link> 
  | </security-role-ref> 
  | <security-role-ref> 
  |     <role-name>MyPortletAdmin</role-name> 
  |     <role-link>Admin</role-link> 
  | </security-role-ref>
  | . . .

With this setup, I can programmatically check if a user is part of a particular group with isUserInRole() for either of the two listed roles.  My curiosity is if the roles that I use inside the portlet are strictly defined by the contents of this descriptor.

Would it be possible to test against some other role-name, without editing the descriptor?

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