Thank you,

In 4, I don't understand how I would plug Credential from Jetty in
combination with the user.properties file or is that a completely new
alternative you're proposing here?

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Joe Fernandez <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> 1. No, you can either develop your own JAAS LoginModule or use the
> Glassfish
> LoginModule.  The LoginModule gets picked up by the ActiveMQ
> JaasAuthenticationBroker. You specify what module to pick up via a
> combination of broker XML file and the login.config file. Keep in mind that
> this is for 'authentication' and not authorization.
>
> 3. ActiveMQ's default JAAS LoginModule (see PropertiesLoginModule) will
> automatically pickup modifications made to the user and group properties
> file. It reads the file every time the login method gets called.
>
> 4. I don't think so, but you could take advantage of
> org.mortbay.jetty.security.Credential.
>
> 5. Authorization is performed by the BrokerFilter; there's no dependency on
> transport type at that level.  The ConnectionInfo object just needs to
> render a username and password.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Joe
> www.ttmsolutions.com
>
>
>
> Patrick Julien-2 wrote:
> >
> > I have read the security page found at
> > http://activemq.apache.org/security.html but I am somewhat confused by
> the
> > information found there.
> >
> > 1. If I wanted ActiveMQ to work with a Glassfish realm, Glassfish does
> > indeed use JAAS, would I need to code my own plugin based on
> BrokerPlugin?
> > Or would it be possible to configure the current JAAS plugin to work with
> > the glassfish realm?  Note here that I am not looking to replace the
> > OpenMQ
> > instance found inside Glassfish itself, ActiveMQ would run standalone
> > outside any container.
> >
> > 2. If I do need to make my own plugin based on BrokerPlugin, what jars
> are
> > actually needed to accomplish this?
> >
> > 3. Say this turns out to be too complicated to bridge the two together.
> > How
> > sensitive would ActiveMQ be to having the "users.properties" and
> > "groups.properties" files being refreshed periodically from realm data?
> >
> > 4. Is it possible to hash the passwords found in user.properties?
> >
> > 5. ActiveMQ supports many transports but it's my understanding that not
> > all
> > of them support authorization.  Is there an exaustive list somewhere of
> > which transports support authorization and which do not?
> >
> > thank you,
> >
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