RE: [xwiki-users] JAAS Integration with XWiki
by THOMAS, BRIAN M (SBCSI)
Thanks, Charles. I left a similar request as a comment on your wiki. I
am actively working on a JAAS implementation of XWiki's interfaces. Or
rather, I have begun by subclassing the XWiki*ServiceImpl classes
because that's how some others are done and there may be things that
XWiki needs there. It may actually be that it makes more sense just to
implement the interfaces directly.
This is probably not the venue for continued discussion in this vein, so
I'll do this directly, but thought I'd let the list know that this is
going on in case anyone wants to share in the effort and results.
I'm not on the developers list; are you, Charles? Would that be the
best place to carry on? I suppose if you didn't intend it to be an
"official" part of XWiki it might not be, but on the other hand it looks
like a good place for the XWiki developers to start if nothing else.
The only jGuard-specific code should be connected only by the
configuration files.
Alternatively, perhaps the jGuard wiki would be a good place to discuss
and develop the overall design. Does that sound like a good idea?
I'm sorry for the delay in responding; I started this reply on Friday
and then forgot about it over the weekend. Though I never completed it,
I found it, marked unread, in my Sent Items folder...
brain[sic]
-----Original Message-----
From: charles gay [mailto:charles.gay@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:13 AM
To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] JAAS Integration with XWiki
Hi,
i'm part of the jGuard project and a user of Xwiki (through our website
www.jguard.net hosted and powered by XWiki).
jGuard implements JAAS and provide an easy way to use it in a webapp
context.
that's right that Xwiki security apis differs from the JAAS apis.
but the concept involved in the Xwiki apis, are closed of the JAAS and
jGuard ones.
if you've got some interest by adapting the XWiki apis to JGuard (an
JAAS implicitly), i can help you to do it.
but this adapter will not be an "official" Xwiki way....
hope it helps,
Charles GAY(jGuard team).
On 4/25/06, THOMAS, BRIAN M (SBCSI) <bt0008(a)att.com> wrote:
We are standardizing on the Java Authentication and Authorization
Service (JAAS). I thought I heard that XWiki supports the Pluggable
Authentication Modules (PAM) standard, but haven't found any reference
to it in the docs. Further, there are some articles out about
integrating JAAS into Tomcat, which is another thing to think about. We
actually are considering at least two methods here - a centralized PIN
server and a RADIUS server for SecurID access, and both have clients
that implement the JAAS interfaces.
There are a couple of strategies that I could probably try: one is just
to use the JAAS/Tomcat integration route. That would seem to give the
most bang-per-buck, but that would (I think) not allow controls at the
level of granularity that XWiki does, or would actually take controls
away from the XWiki rights system.
Another (actually my first idea) is to implement the various
com.xpn.xwiki.user.api interfaces (XWikiAuthService, XWikiGroupService,
and XWikiRightService) with JAAS calls.
Anyone have any experience with this?
brain[sic]
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