[jira] Commented: (AMQ-908) Authorization plugin should have configurable principal classes

["Ken Gallo (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ken Gallo commented on AMQ-908:
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Hi!

I am currrently working on this improvement and I'm wondering what are the other possible principal implementations available out there aside from Jaas' GroupPrincipal and Weblogic's WLSGroupImpl so that I can test them. I assume they all have a constructor with a single String parameter for the name?

Thanks,
Ken

> Authorization plugin should have configurable principal classes
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AMQ-908
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-908
>             Project: ActiveMQ
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Broker
>    Affects Versions: 4.0.1
>            Reporter: Aaron Mulder
>             Fix For: 4.2.0, 4.0.3
>
>
> Currently, if you configure the authorization plugin, it assumes that all principals listed should be of type {{org.apache.activemq.jaas.GroupPrincipal}}.  This is OK if you're using ActiveMQ LoginModules, but since there's a fairly small supply of those, it would be great if you could use arbitrary login modules and tell the authorization plugin which principal classes to use.  For example, {{groupClass="weblogic.security.principal.WLSGroupImpl}} or something like that.  A good first step would be to let you change the group class.  A good second step would be to let you specify user and group classes and then somehow indicate which names are which (e.g. {{admin="administrators,user:aaron,user:bob"}} or whatever).  Someday maybe it will be nice to support any arbitrary combination of principal classes but that seems far away.
> When instantiating the principal classes, I imagine we should use a constructor with a single String argument if available, or else a default constructor plus a "setName" method, or else I guess bail.

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