[GERONIMO-4603] PropertiesLoginManager is hardwired to properties-login login module

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.4, 2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.2, 3.0.0
• Component/s: console
• Security Level: public (Regular issues)
• Assignee: Haihong Xu
• Reporter: David Jencks
• Created: 25/Mar/09 09:48
• Updated: 18/Sep/09 13:19
• Resolved: 18/Sep/09 13:19

Description

In production you want to replace the toy properties login realm with something else such as an ldap realm. However the admin console has a hardwired dependency on the properties-login gbean.

We should make the reference from PropertiesLoginManager multi-valued and scan through it for properties login modules so you can edit any such properties files.

Workaround for replacing server-security-config with something with a real security realm is to include the properties login module as a dummy, not used in a security realm:

<!-- bug workaround -->
<gbean name="properties-login"
class="org.apache.geronimo.security.jaas.LoginModuleGBean">
<attribute name="loginModuleClass">org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.providers.PropertiesFileLoginModule</attribute>
<attribute name="options">
usersURI=var/security/users.properties
groupsURI=var/security/groups.properties
</attribute>
<attribute name="loginDomainName">geronimo-admin</attribute>
</gbean>