Shouldn't STS delegate certificate authentication to the underlying JAAS
system ?


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Christian Schneider <
ch...@die-schneider.net> wrote:

> I am currently working on a authentication setup where a client
> authenticates against a STS (Security Token Service) using certificate
> based authentication.
>
> In this case the STS already authenticates the user in the ws-security
> layer.
> I want to add functionality to the CXF STS to fetch the user roles using
> JAAS. So I need JAAS login modules for properties and ldap that do not do
> authentication and instead only fetch the roles.
>
> Does it make sense to add this to the karaf jaas modules?
>
> I can think of either providing separate classes for this case or
> introduce a switch to turn off the authentication part.
>
> Christian
>
> --
> Christian Schneider
> http://www.liquid-reality.de
>
> Open Source Architect
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>
>


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