Thanks for clarifying things. I'll go about having both WSS4J and JAAS use
the same user credentials source.

Much appreciated!



Freeman Fang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> My comment inline.
> On 2010-5-28, at 上午6:23, IvanMiletic wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First off, I'm pretty new to all of this. I'm using ServiceMix 3.3.2.
>>
>> I wanted to secure the cxf-wsdl-first example using WS-Sec and only a
>> plaintext UsernameToken. I added a policy to the wsdl file, which  
>> you can
>> fine here:  http://old.nabble.com/file/p28700520/person.wsdl  
>> person.wsdl . I
>> didn't really change anything else.
>>
>> My understanding was that the cxf-bc would just use JAAS out-of-the- 
>> box to
>> authenticate a user. I guess I was wrong. I got an exception about the
>> WSS4JInInterceptor's getPasswordCB containing a null reference.  
>> Looking
>> throughout the web, I see that people explicitly add the  
>> WSS4JInInterceptor,
>> with references their own password callbacks, which in turn also  
>> does some
>> kind of password check.
>>
>> I'm confused, because now it looks to me like both WSS4J and JAAS  
>> are doing
>> authentication. Is that correct? If so, why?
> Yeah, both wss4j and JAAS are doing authentication.
> About wss4j, the callback handler must be here, as it's requested by  
> wss4j, this is ws-security concept auth, we can't skip it when we  
> introduce ws-security which bring us username/passward with soap  
> security header.
> About JAAS, we can get username/password from ws-security  
> UsernameToken soap header and delegate to smx AuthenticationService,  
> that's what JbiJAASInterceptor do, this is smx auth.
> So here we actually have two auth, one from ws-security  
> UsernameToken(can only do username/password) an one from smx  
> AuthenticationService(can do username/password and role definition).
> However in the callback handler, you can load $SMX_HOME/conf/users- 
> passwords.properties programtically and set password accordingly, I  
> believe by this way, it meet your requirement for only one source of  
> userinfo.
> 
> Or if you only want to do ussername/password auth, you doesn't care  
> the role provided by smx, you can only use ws-security UsernameToken,  
> you need add delegateToJaas="false" flag to cxfbc consumer endpoint to  
> bypass the JbiJAASInterceptor.
> 
> Note: delegateToJaas is new added flag which is tracked by  
> SMXCOMP-697[1], if you use latest released Apache Servicemix 3.3.2,  
> you can use it.
> 
> [1]https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/SMXCOMP-697
> 
> Freeman
> 
>>
>> I would like for there to only be one source for user info.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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