Hello, All I'm a Jboss Beginner but i feel that I have a fairly complex 
question.  I'm trying to integrate a third party SSO solution into Jboss, which 
is a mostly trivial task on it's own.  I am able to authenticate users that are 
configured through the SSO gateway.  However, I want these users to be able to 
log into Portal as well.  In my current configuration(4.2.1 AS - 2.6 Portal) 
users are able to log in and are shown options in the user portlet bassed on 
their roles.  However, the header still shows a login link unless the users is 
manually added with an admin user through the user portlet.  Users added 
"manually" through the user portlet and granted an "Admn" role do not get 
access to the admin portal and no user is able to use the dashboard (a 403 
error is returned when clicking the dashboard link and no "admin" link for 
users with admin roles)  

I am under the impression that the reason that the dashboard doesn't work is 
because I need to synchronize my portal database with whatever information 
comes from the SSO gateway.  I have attempted to use the 
'SynchronizingLoginModule but with no success.  I think that my confusion is in 
the JAAS layer.  Josso has it's own security realm which, by the installation 
instructions is held in $JBOSS_HOME/server/someservername/conf/login-config.xml 
 :

<application-policy name = "josso">
  |   <authentication>
  |     <login-module code = "org.josso.jb4.agent.JBossSSOGatewayLoginModule" 
flag = "required">
  |        <module-option name="debug">true</module-option>
  |     </login-module>
  |   </authentication>
  | </application-policy>

>From my vauge understanding of the JAAS layer, this module will be used 
>whenever JOSSO is called to authenticate a user.  This login module appears to 
>be doing everything that it should be as the user portlet recognizes the 
>correct user as being logged in.  However, we need more to make portal happy.  
>In 
>$JBOSS_HOME/server/someservername/deploy/jboss-portal.sar/conf/login-config.xml
> I have: 

<application-policy name="portal">
  |       <authentication>
  | <login-module 
code="org.jboss.portal.identity.auth.SynchronizingLoginModule" flag="optional">
  |             <module-option name="synchronizeIdentity">true</module-option>
  |             <module-option name="synchronizeRoles">true</module-option>
  |             <module-option 
name="additionalRole">Authenticated</module-option>
  |             <module-option name="defaultAssignedRole">User</module-option>
  |             <module-option 
name="userModuleJNDIName">java:/portal/UserModule</module-option>
  |             <module-option 
name="roleModuleJNDIName">java:/portal/RoleModule</module-option>
  |             <module-option 
name="membershipModuleJNDIName">java:/portal/MembershipModule</module-option>
  |             <module-option 
name="userProfileModuleJNDIName">java:/portal/UserProfileModule</module-option>
  |          </login-module>
  |      </authentication>
  |    </application-policy>

and in 
$JBOSS_HOME/server/someservername/deploy/jboss-portal.sar/jboss-server.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml

<jboss-web>
  |    <security-domain>java:/jaas/portal</security-domain>
  |    <context-root>/portal</context-root>
  |    <replication-config>
  |       <replication-trigger>SET</replication-trigger>
  |    </replication-config>
  |    <resource-ref>
  |       <res-ref-name>jdbc/PortalDS</res-ref-name>
  |       <jndi-name>java:PortalDS</jndi-name>
  |    </resource-ref>
  | </jboss-web>
  | 

My understanding of this setup is that when jboss is asked to authenticate a 
user it will use the josso login module (which appears to work) and then the 
portal context will attempt, through SynchronizingLoginModule, to add the 
principal information to the JBP database if it cannot already find it.  I have 
also tried adding the syncronizingloginmodule under the 'josso' application 
policy because I was uncertain if it would get called since the user was 
already authenticated.  This caused a null pointer exception to be thrown.  
This oproblem is getting fusterating.  Perhaps the SynchLoginMod doesn't do 
what I think it should.

Any thoughts, questions,  comments, and/or stern reprimands for my being 
foolish are greatly appreciated.  

-Nick

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