alon salant wrote:

When working on SimpleFileStore, it was easy to disable Slide security
by setting

  org.apache.slide.security=false

in slide.properties.

However, I do want to be able configure basic webapp security using
security constraints on paths and HTTP methods. But I do not want to
manage users and roles within slide.

So I have slide configured with security=false, SimpleFileStore,
TransientSecurityStore, and TransientLockStore for my store
implementations, all user and role definitions removed from Domain.xml
and basic auth configured in my web.xml for the path to the webdav
servlet.

With this config, I can connect via webdav, log in and browse.

However, I cannot create files or folders, copy, move, delete....

The problem that I am running in to is that Methods (MkcolMethod for
example), still try to authorize the current principal. If the
principal is null, things work fine b/c SecurityImpl returns
SubjectNode.UNAUTHENTICATED and slide lets this continue. However, if
the principal is not null (it is not when the webapp makes the user
log in), SecurityImpl.getPrincipal( ) tries to retrieve an object for
that user resulting in an ObjectNotFoundException.

This looks like hard behavior to change (unfortunately).
AbstractWebDavMethod creates the SlideToken with the user principal in
run( ) using req.getUserPrincipal().

I haven't traced through the other methods to see if/how the user
principal is used. It looks like copy/delete/put/move/mkcol (at least)
all have issues related to this.

Any thoughts? What I am trying to do seems like a pretty common use
case. Is there a good way to address this need? I'm hoping I've missed
something simple.

Alon

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