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21.7. Disabling Authentication

This section contains information on how to disable authentication on individual specific services.

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Developers who need to disable the entire authentication for development purposes can do so using the jbossas-5-disableauth.patch patch available in the source files (src/build). First, copy the patch file to the jboss-as directory and run the following command to apply the patch from the jboss-asdirectory: 
patch -p0 -i ./jbossas-5-disableauth.patch
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Note that this patch is intended for development purposes only.

21.7.1. JMX Console
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To disable authentication for the JMX console, comment out the <security-constraint> section in the $JBOSS_HOME/server/PROFILE/deploy/jmx-console.war/WEB-INF/web.xml file as shown in Example 21.8, “HtmlAdaptor securite-constraint Commented out”.

Example 21.8. HtmlAdaptor securite-constraint Commented out

<!--
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>HtmlAdaptor</web-resource-name>
<description>
An example security config that only allows users with the role JBossAdmin to access the HTML JMX console web application
</description>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>JBossAdmin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
-->
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