Thanks for the confirmation on this.

Cheers,
Kang

Werner Dittmann wrote:
Right - this property file is not used to store
the password to unlock the private key.

A good idea could be that the PWCallback class opens
a file (could be a property-style file) where you store
the password.

The idea behind PWcallback is to enable various ways to
store/retrieve the password of a user's private key and
to use it to unlock it. For example some people store
the paasword in a directoy or database or implement
a GUI to ask the user. Depends on the use case at hand.

Regards,
Werner

kang tang schrieb:
hi,

I am using a WSS4J with Axis 1.x to sign SOAP message on my web service
client.

The client works fine when I use PWcallback in client-config.wsdd and
hardcoded the password for
my private key in the PWcallback class.

But I would like to actually put the password of my private key in
crypto.properties as plain text. yes, I
understand this is not a good practice, but lets presume this is not an
issue in my case.

So I removed the 'user' and 'PWcallback' parameters in client-config.wsdd :

----------------------------------------
                       <handler
type="java:org.apache.ws.axis.security.WSDoAllSender">
                               <parameter name="action"
value="Signature" />
                                                             <!--
                               <parameter name="user" value="test" />
                               <parameter name="passwordCallbackClass"
value="test.sample.SamplePWCallback" />
                                                                 -->

                               <parameter name="signatureKeyIdentifier"
                                       value="IssuerSerial" />

                               <parameter name="signaturePropFile"
                                       value="crypto.properties" />

                       </handler>
--------------------------------------------


and set them in my crypto.properties:

-----------------------------------------------------
org.apache.ws.security.crypto.provider=org.apache.ws.security.components.crypto.Merlin

org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.type=pkcs12
org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.password=xxxxx
org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.alias=test
org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.alias.password=xxxxx
org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.file=xxx.p12



But the application complains it can't find the 'user' and 'password'
for the private key required for signing.
It appears the 'org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.alias.password' and
'org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.alias'
in crypto.properties simply won't work?

Many thanks,
Kang




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