Comments on: Perform a JAAS programmatic login in Jboss – try to solve the “empty” remote user problem

By: roneiv

roneiv — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:13:13 +0000

Mgibson,

I tried to follow your link but I ended up on the forum front page..

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By: mgibson77

mgibson77 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:52:56 +0000

Roneiv,
I’ve been trying to do JAAS form based authentication on jboss but its failing all the time…
please take a look at my posting, it has not been answered since I post it on the jobss community forum.

http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=158664

By: roneiv

roneiv — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:23:55 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

By: anu

anu — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:43:23 +0000

thanks for the nice article…

By: twistedmind

twistedmind — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:15:28 +0000

Hello,

I’ve found the maven depencency for JBoss 5.0.0. Do be able to import the WebAuthentication add the following maven depencency to your pom:

org.jboss.jbossas
jboss-as-tomcat
provided
5.0.0.GA

After that you can import the class:

import org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.login.WebAuthentication;

By: Kashi

Kashi — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:33:33 +0000

Hi Jigna,
resp.sendRedirect(”http://localhost:8080/portal/auth/dashboard”);
instead of sendredirect()
plz use a dispathcer .

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:36:11 +0000

Fantastic tutorial m8. Thanks a million. This one really saved my day.

By: Jigna Joshi

Jigna Joshi — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:43:34 +0000

Hi,
I have tried Programmic WebAuthentication in JBoss portal 2.6.6..
i m calling LoginServelt from login.jsp and it’s working fine..
in LoginServlet.java
WebAuthentication webAuthentication = new WebAuthentication();
if(webAuthentication.login(user, pass))
{
System.out.println(”In Web Authentication “);

System.out.println(”redirectUrl : “+redirectUrl);
String referer = req.getHeader(”Referer”);

resp.sendRedirect(”http://localhost:8080/portal/auth/dashboard”);

}
This is working fine if i login from login link on Portal home page..but, in my real scenario i ve to login it from outside..so i m running one simple html throgh apache
http://localhost/scripts/login.html..in this login.html i m calling LoginServlet of Portal..

it is doing Authentication but not doing authorization…and so if do do re-login..it works…
Am i missing something, please help me..
thanx in advance

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:33:15 +0000

Andrei.

Im running into the same problem with JBOSS 4.2.2. Has anyone found a solution.

Thanks.

Micah

By: roneiv

roneiv — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:28:39 +0000

Andrei,

If you have the time you could perhaps test the scenarios described in this post? http://roneiv.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/using-webauthentication-in-jboss/
Just to be able to discover where the error might be.

The source of your problem could be different things, the login-config.xml, the web.xml etc.

In login-config, have you remembered to include the “Roles” role in your roles-query? It is a mandatory group in jboss, without it authentication fails.

Also, in your web.xml you need to have at least ONE role defined in auth-constraint that is a valid role for the user you try to log on with.

Possibly you could also add debugging statements of the security layer to see if something strange is going on. Follow the explanations here: http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-12198)

Good luck!