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Carsten Ziegeler commented on SLING-2944:
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I've removed the header stuff in rev 1520522
> Replace administrative login by service-based login
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> Key: SLING-2944
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-2944
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: API, JCR, ResourceResolver, Service User Mapper
> Affects Versions: JCR Resource 2.2.8, JCR Jackrabbit Server 2.1.0, JCR
> Base 2.1.2, JCR API 2.1.0, API 2.4.2, Resource Resolver 1.0.6
> Reporter: Felix Meschberger
> Assignee: Felix Meschberger
> Fix For: Service User Mapper 1.0.0, Servlets Resolver 2.2.6, JCR
> Resource 2.3.0, JCR Jackrabbit Server 2.2.0, JCR Base 2.1.4, JCR API 2.2.0,
> File System Resource Provider 1.1.4, Extensions Bundleresource 2.1.4, API
> 2.5.0, Resource Resolver 1.1.0
>
> Attachments: serviceusermapper.tgz, SLING-2944.patch
>
>
> From the start Sling tried to solve the problem of providing services access
> to the repository and resource tree without having to hard code and configure
> any passwords. This was done first with the
> SlingRepository.loginAdministrative and later with the
> ResourceResolverFactory.getAdministrativeResourceResolver methods.
> Over time this mechanism proved to be the hammer to hit all nails.
> Particularly these methods while truly useful have the disadvantage of
> providing full administrative privileges to services where just some specific
> kind of privilege would be enough.
> For example for the JSP compiler it would be enough to be able to read the
> JSP source scripts and write the Java classes out to the JSP compiler's
> target location. Other access is not required. Similarly to manage users user
> management privileges are enough and no access to /content is really required.
> To solve this problem a new API for Service Authentication has been proposed
> at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/Service+Authentication.
> The prototype of which is implemented in
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/whiteboard/fmeschbe/deprecate_login_administrative.
> This issue is about merging the prototype code back into trunk and thus fully
> implementing the feature.
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