[jboss-user] [Security] - Problems with authentication on EJB2

[sverker]

Hi,
I'm trying to update an old EJB2-based application to be able to run on JBoss 5.1. Well, everything work except for that I keep getting java.lang.SecurityException: Authentication exception, principal=null on some operations.

I have a custom login module, it's right now deployed with the new method but I've also tried with the old DynamicLoginConfig. When I log in on the web frontend it looks like this in the log:

22:59:46,100 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] initialize
  | 22:59:46,106 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] Security domain: lime
  | 22:59:46,109 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] Saw unauthenticatedIdentity=unauthenticated
  | 22:59:46,113 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] login
  | 22:59:46,114 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] Trying to authenticate sverker
  | 22:59:46,119 DEBUG [AccountServiceBean] AccountServiceBean.ejbCreate()
  | 22:59:46,168 INFO  [AccountServiceBean] AccountServiceBean.authenticateAccount("sverker","*******") from null successfull
  | 22:59:46,170 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] LimeLoginModule.login("sverker","*******") successfull
  | 22:59:46,171 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] Assign user to role admin
  | 22:59:46,174 TRACE [LimeLoginModule] User 'sverker' authenticated, loginOk=true

However, on the operations that fails I see this instead:
23:02:05,078 TRACE [UsersRolesLoginModule] initialize
  | 23:02:05,083 TRACE [UsersRolesLoginModule] Security domain: other
  | 23:02:05,084 TRACE [UsersRolesLoginModule] findResource: null
  | 23:02:05,087 ERROR [UsersRolesLoginModule] Failed to load users/passwords/role files
  | java.io.IOException: No properties file: users.properties or defaults: defaultUsers.properties found

All operations are unchecked, the app handles authorization in other ways. I can see no difference in ejb-jar.xml on method-permission fields between the operations that work and those that don't.
I have tested with setting security-domain and unauthenticated-principal in either jboss-app.xml (in the ear) or jboss.xml (in ejb-jar) + jboss-web.xml or in all but no change.

How come that for some operations it chooses security-domain other? I see the same also when calling operations on EJB's from a MBean, how can I set which security-domain it belongs to and shouldn't it be the ejb's security domain that matters?

The setting I use in jboss-app and the others are:
	<security-domain>java:/jaas/lime</security-domain>
  | 	<unauthenticated-principal>unauthenticated</unauthenticated-principal>

What is this unauthenticated-principal used for, shouldn't that prevent the exception with principal=null?


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