On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 10:37 -0700, David Blevins wrote:
> That's pretty much right. The exact code looks like this:
>
> try {
> // Perform a login attempt (which should fail)
> // simply to excercise the initialize code of any
> // LoginModules that are configured.
> // They should have a chance to perform any special
> // boot-time code that they may need.
> login("","");
> } catch (Throwable e) {
> }
>
> We can probably create a flag you could set to disable that behavior
> if you'd rather not get the call.
>
> -David
>
Thanks for your response. I don't think there is need for this special
property: the valid LoginModule implementation will simply throw
LoginException on empty user so it's okay. I'll just turn off logging
for this special case ;)
Thanks!
Martin
>
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
>
> > IIRC, OpenEJB performs a single "fake" login after installing the
> > security service in an effort to cause the login module to
> > initialize early. The security service performs this in a try catch
> > that ignores any exceptions.
> >
> > -dain
> >
> > On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Martin Vysny wrote:
> >
> >> Hello guys,
> >> we tried to supply our custom JAAS LoginModule to OpenEJB. It works
> >> beautifully, I have just one question.
> >> When the OpenEJB is created (using the new InitialContext(properties)
> >> construct), it invokes this LoginModule and the handler supplies an
> >> empty string as an username in NameCallback. This isn't surprising
> >> though: I do not provide any username nor credentials to the
> >> InitialContext. What should I do?
> >> - should I expect empty string in LoginModule and throw
> >> LoginException?
> >> - or should I provide some username/password? This is probably rather
> >> weird as no ejb method is being called...
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Martin
> >>
> >> ps: please see attached stack trace for quick reference.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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