Many thanks to Annegret and Mehrad for their most useful input! We went OTT for the auth.conf and trying to replicate how a "true" client works with JAAS, and hence trying to have 2 auth.conf.
The MBean Timer is running in the same JVM as JBoss therefore, it already has an auth.conf it can use! By simply adding in the JBoss/conf/default/auth.conf client-login { org.jboss.security.ClientLoginModule required; }; and login as follow in the Schedulable class: LoginCallback handler = new LoginCallback(getUserId(),getPassword().toCharArray()); localCtx = new LoginContext("client-login", handler); localCtx.login(); It is the only thing required... It became very confusing at some points when we introduced encrypted passwords in DB in one "auth.conf" and not the other one... Once again, many thanks for your help. Very appreciated! regards from London. Benoit. > Message: 12 > Subject: Antwort: RE: [JBoss-user] Re: Security Roles not accessible in beans? >[Annegret] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:33:58 +0200 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi , > you are not restricted to use of auth.conf , what JAAS needs , is only > login modules , which by default are in auth.conf . > you may redirect it by writting your configuration , and set it as you > configuration with a command , only once !! > Configuration.setConfiguration(new MyAuthConfiguration()); and MyAuthConfiguration class could be import javax.security.auth.login.AppConfigurationEntry; import javax.security.auth.login.Configuration; public class MyAuthConfiguration extends Configuration { public MyAuthConfiguration() { } public AppConfigurationEntry[] getAppConfigurationEntry(String configid) { HashMap options = new HashMap(); String name = "org.jboss.security.ClientLoginModule"; AppConfigurationEntry ace = new AppConfigurationEntry(name,AppConfigurationEntry.LoginModuleControlFlag.REQUIRED, options); AppConfigurationEntry[] entry = {ace}; return entry; } } Best regards. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user