[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-454?page=all ]
Matt Hogstrom updated GERONIMO-454:
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Fix Version/s: Wish List
(was: 1.2)
> Support Group Name = Role Name Role Mapping
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>
> Key: GERONIMO-454
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-454
> Project: Geronimo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: deployment, security
> Affects Versions: 1.0-M2
> Reporter: Aaron Mulder
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Wish List
>
>
> Currently, you must manually map principals to roles in the security
> component of a deployment descriptor. In the common case where group names
> match role names, this seems like unnecessary overhead.
> Alan and I talked and our plan is to make the role-mapping parts of the
> security elements look something like this:
> <security>
> ...
> <automatic-role-mapping>?
> <principal-class>foo.GroupPrincipal</principal-class>*
> </automatic-role-mapping>
> <role-mapping>?
> ...
> </role-mapping>
> </security>
> The automatic-role-mapping is the new bit. If you specify that element
> empty, it would map every principal type the security realm considers to be a
> group to roles. For example, if you configure the seucrity realm to consider
> the principal class "foo.GroupPrincipal" as a role, and use an empty
> automatic-role-mapping element, that's what you'd get. You can also manually
> specify one or more principal classes that should be automatically mapped to
> roles. In any of these cases, the "automatic" mapping is done based on the
> role name and group name matching.
> If you specify automatic mapping *and* individual role mapping, then the user
> just needs to qualify for the role based on either one or the other (not
> both). So you could use a manual role mapping to add eligible users on top
> of the automatic role mapping, but not to subtract users from the automatic
> role mapping.
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