Hi Peter,

may be you're comfortable with
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jaas/JAASRefGuide.htmlfor
at least an introduction into JAAS. Any further comments will be
hopefully given by the Jetty masters over here.

Regards,
Andreas

2010/11/25 Major Péter <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to integrate Jetty with an SSO solution, and I'm a bit puzzled
> with this new JAAS API...
> The most disturbing class is UserIdentity, it contains references to
> Subject and Principal, but I feel like these three classes represents the
> same thing. There most be some difference, but I have no idea what that is,
> and the JavaDoc well doesn't really help at all.
>
> What I would like to do is have an application with a filter in front of
> it. If the filter thinks the user is not authenticated, it redirects to the
> SSO system, then when it's back it programmatically logs into the Jetty
> realm, so getremoteuser, getuserprincipal and isuserinrole all works from
> the application. What I've currently done is I've created an own
> JAASLoginService class, with an own IdentityService and UserIdentity (I need
> to override UserIdentity to have my own isUserInRole, and IdentityService,
> because that's the one that creates the UserIdentity), but I have no idea
> what to do next.
> I think JAASLoginService is a realm in the JAAS terminology, and when I
> overrode the login method, that way I don't need to implement an own
> loginmodule, but now I don't know how to programmatically log the user into
> this realm.
> Any hints/tips about this?
>
> //I'm using Jetty v7.2.0
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Regards,
> Peter
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