How to use LoginInitialContextFactory

[lhoriman]

My web application works great, but now I'm trying to authenticate from a remote client.

From reading the manual I gather that I need props like this in my initial context:

props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jboss.security.jndi.LoginInitialContextFactory");
props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "jnp://localhost:1099");
props.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
props.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, name);
props.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);
props.put(Context.SECURITY_PROTOCOL, "myLoginConfig");

I'm most confused about SECURITY_PROTOCOL. It seems to be a references to a login config on the client side, but how do you configure that, and what login module would you use?

I'm stuck getting "java.lang.SecurityException: Unable to locate a login configuration" errors.

Thanks,
Jeff

[lhoriman]

Answering my own question, most of it seems to be spelled out here:

http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=58453

Here's a question:

Is it possible to include a trivial auth.conf in jbossall-client.jar ("other" using ClientLoginModule) and have it loaded by by LoginInitialContextFactory by default?

If auth "just worked" by including the principal and credential in the initial context (and using LoginInitalContextFactory, of course) this might make life easier for people that don't want to climb the (already steep) JAAS/JBossSX learning curve.

Thanks,
Jeff

[starksm64]

http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JndiLoginInitialContextFactory

[lhoriman]

http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JndiLoginInitialContextFactory

Thanks, I found JndiLoginInitialContextFactory from browsing the code, but I also noticed that is not included in jbossall-client.jar. At least not in the head trunk.

I know what you're going to say next...
http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-1738

:-)

Jeff