[wildfly-dev] Permissions in WildFly Core
Josef Cacek
jcacek at redhat.com
Fri Aug 28 03:54:53 EDT 2015
Hi,
thanks for all your comments.
I've created a new JIRA [1] to cover moving the security-manager subsystem from WildFly to the Core.
[1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-5227
Regards,
-- josef
----- Original Message -----
> From: "David M. Lloyd" <david.lloyd at redhat.com>
> To: wildfly-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 3:31:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [wildfly-dev] Permissions in WildFly Core
>
> The security manager subsystem should definitely be in core. It only
> has a casual association with Java EE 7 and there's really no practical
> way to run under a security manager without it.
>
> On 08/27/2015 06:08 AM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> > That might actually be ok, since we aren't talking about a Java API, and
> > there are no reps on other specs. However I agree that is wierd.
> > Alternatively we could add different format/schema but I suspect it
> > would look just like permissions.xml.
> >
> > On Aug 26, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com
> > <mailto:tomaz.cerar at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> Also AFAIR, security manager subsystem implements EE7 security
> >> manager(permissions.xml) support.
> >> and as such doesn't belong to core.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Brian Stansberry
> >> <brian.stansberry at redhat.com <mailto:brian.stansberry at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8/26/15 8:49 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> >> > Just some data, as I know distribution size is a significant factor
> >> > in
> >> > deciding what goes into WildFly Core:
> >> >
> >> > The org.wildfly.extension.security.manager module itself is 45KB
> >> > unzipped, so not much of a concern.
> >> >
> >> > However, it depends on org.jboss.metadata.common, which is 475KB and
> >> > isn't itself present in WildFly Core.
> >>
> >> The requirement for org.jboss.metadata.common looks pretty simple to
> >> eliminate. It's just using a bit of what looks like easily duplicated
> >> utility code.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > All its other deps are present in WildFly Core.
> >> >
> >> > On 8/26/15 7:38 AM, Josef Cacek wrote:
> >> >> Hi *,
> >> >>
> >> >> Is there a way how to configure Java security permissions in
> >> >> WildFly Core?
> >> >> If not, is there any reason why not to move the
> >> >> wildfly-security-manager from WildFly into WildFly Core?
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm investigating failing tests in WildFly Core testsuite ([1],[2])
> >> >> when security manager is enabled.
> >> >>
> >> >> The problem is, security manager is in place and I'm not able to
> >> >> define permissions for deployments
> >> >> - using policy file (configured by java.security.policy system
> >> >> property) doesn't work for me;
> >> >> - putting META-INF/permissions.xml into deployments doesn't help
> >> >> because PermissionsParseProcessor deployment processor is part of
> >> >> wildfly-security-manager (i.e. not in Core) and it is only
> >> >> activated when security-manager subsystem is present.
> >> >>
> >> >> So the tests fail because of AccessControlExceptions on the server
> >> >> side.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any thoughts?
> >> >>
> >> >> As a workaround we can run the Core testsuite against full WildFly
> >> >> and use either in-deployment permissions.xml or configure
> >> >> permissions in subsystem [3] - but both ways have some
> >> >> disadvantages.
> >> >> We either have to put "unnecessary" permissions.xml in WFCORE
> >> >> deployments or we have to use too wide minimum-permissions in
> >> >> security-manager subsystem configuration.
> >> >>
> >> >> [1]https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-846
> >> >> [2]https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBEAP-526
> >> >> [3]
> >> >> /subsystem=security-manager/deployment-permissions=default:write-attribute(name=minimum-permissions,
> >> >> value=[{class=java.security.AllPermission}])")
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >> -- Josef Cacek
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