Authentication of Schedulable instance

[mcervantes]

So far my experience with JBoss has been excellent, but I've finally hit a major hang-up. My set-up has been rather elegant at this point, I'm hoping this problem won't require me to ruin that.

I've got a set of EJB's that are accessed by remote clients. The EJBs are deployed within a single security realm. The clients are authenticated using the DatabaseServerLoginModule, so they require the location of auth.conf (where the login module is referenced) to be specified as a system property on startup.

Here's the issue: I also have a Schedulable instance - call it the Pumper - that calls a single method in one of the EJB's periodically. The problem is: how does he get authenticated? It seems to silly to try and define a single value for java.security.auth.login.config for the entire JBoss JVM, and this doesn't seem to work anyway.

I'd prefer a solution that avoids storing passwords in cleartext, but I'd go for almost anything right now.

My current code looks like this:

SecurityAssociationHandler handler = new SecurityAssociationHandler();
Principal principal = new Principal() {
public String getName() {
return "mike";
}
};
handler.setSecurityInfo(principal,"testing".toCharArray());
LoginContext loginContext = new LoginContext("VentexSecurityDomain",handler);
loginContext.login();

Context ctx = new InitialContext();
AutomatedQueryExecutorHome automatedQueryExecutorHome =
(AutomatedQueryExecutorHome) ctx.lookup("AutomatedQueryExecutorHome");
AutomatedQueryExecutor automatedQueryExecutor = automatedQueryExecutorHome.create();
automatedQueryExecutor.runAutomatedQueries();

(Note I wouldn't normally hardcode username/pw, I'm just trying to get it to work.)

The error:

21:56:00,000 ERROR [UsersRolesLoginModule] Failed to load users/passwords/role f
iles
java.io.IOException: Properties file users.properties not found
at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule.loadProperties(User
sRolesLoginModule.java:212)
at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule.loadUsers(UsersRole
sLoginModule.java:193)
at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule.initialize(UsersRol
esLoginModule.java:95)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor27.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invoke(LoginContext.java:662)

Thanks in advance...