Howdy,

I've been reading about JAAS for a while now but I am overwhelmed with the 
information coming at me. I'm trying to do something that is non-standard and I 
am not sure where to start. I think it is simple but I don't really understand 
where to write custom code in the jaas infrastructure. I hope someone here can 
give me a pointer in the right direction.

What I have now is a working web application that does authentication based on 
client side certificates. Because I will move this application behind an SSL 
accelerator, the authentication scheme also needs to change. The accelerator 
will put the SSL Client Distuingished Name in a HTTP header so that 
applications behind the accelerator know who the user is.

The code for this should be simple, look at a HTTP header and extract the JAAS 
Subject name from that. (Only set if the certificate matches)

My problem is that I cannot find the right integration point in JBoss. Where 
would I implement such a scheme?

Or is this something that typically is implemented in the Tomcat 
infrastructure? I did find things like SSLAuthenticator and BasicAuthenticator 
there but I was not sure whether that is actually used by JBoss.

Thanks,

 S.


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