Chapter 15. Jakarta Authorization

Add Jakarta Authentication to the Security Domain

To add Jakarta Authorization support to the security domain, add the Jakarta Authorization authorization policy to the authorization stack of the security domain, with the required flag set. The following is an example of a security domain with Jakarta Authorization support. However, it is recommended to configure the security domain from the management console or the management CLI, rather than directly modifying the XML.

Example: Security Domain with Jakarta Authentication

<security-domain name="jacc" cache-type="default">
    <authentication>
        <login-module code="UsersRoles" flag="required">
        </login-module>
    </authentication>
    <authorization>
        <policy-module code="JACC" flag="required"/>
    </authorization>
</security-domain>

<security-domain name="jacc" cache-type="default">
    <authentication>
        <login-module code="UsersRoles" flag="required">
        </login-module>
    </authentication>
    <authorization>
        <policy-module code="JACC" flag="required"/>
    </authorization>
</security-domain>

Configure a Web Application to Use Jakarta Authentication

The jboss-web.xml file is located in the WEB-INF/ directory of your deployment, and contains overrides and additional JBoss-specific configuration for the web container. To use your Jakarta Authorization-enabled security domain, you need to include the <security-domain> element, and also set the <use-jboss-authorization> element to true. The following XML is configured to use the Jakarta Authorization security domain above.

Example: Use the Jakarta Authentication Security Domain

<jboss-web>
    <security-domain>jacc</security-domain>
    <use-jboss-authorization>true</use-jboss-authorization>
</jboss-web>

<jboss-web>
    <security-domain>jacc</security-domain>
    <use-jboss-authorization>true</use-jboss-authorization>
</jboss-web>

Configure an Jakarta Enterprise Beans Application to Use Jakarta Authentication

Configuring Jakarta Enterprise Beans to use a security domain and to use Jakarta Authorization differs from web applications. For an Jakarta Enterprise Beans, you can declare method permissions on a method or group of methods, in the ejb-jar.xml descriptor. Within the <ejb-jar> element, any child <method-permission> elements contain information about Jakarta Authorization roles. See the example configuration below for details. The EJBMethodPermission class is part of the Jakarta EE API, and is documented at Class EJBMethodPermission.

Example: Jakarta Authentication Method Permissions in an Jakarta Enterprise Beans

<ejb-jar>
  <assembly-descriptor>
    <method-permission>
      <description>The employee and temp-employee roles can access any method of the EmployeeService bean </description>
      <role-name>employee</role-name>
      <role-name>temp-employee</role-name>
      <method>
        <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
        <method-name>*</method-name>
      </method>
    </method-permission>
  </assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>

<ejb-jar>
  <assembly-descriptor>
    <method-permission>
      <description>The employee and temp-employee roles can access any method of the EmployeeService bean </description>
      <role-name>employee</role-name>
      <role-name>temp-employee</role-name>
      <method>
        <ejb-name>EmployeeService</ejb-name>
        <method-name>*</method-name>
      </method>
    </method-permission>
  </assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>

Example: Security Domain Declaration in an Jakarta Enterprise Beans

<ejb-jar>
    <assembly-descriptor>
        <security>
        <ejb-name>*</ejb-name>
        <security-domain>myDomain</security-domain>
        <run-as-principal>myPrincipal</run-as-principal>
        </security>
    </assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>

<ejb-jar>
    <assembly-descriptor>
        <security>
        <ejb-name>*</ejb-name>
        <security-domain>myDomain</security-domain>
        <run-as-principal>myPrincipal</run-as-principal>
        </security>
    </assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>

Disable Jakarta Authentication in the Legacy Security Subsystem

By default, the application server uses the legacy security subsystem to configure the Jakarta Authorization policy provider and factory. The default configuration maps to implementations from PicketBox.

Define a Jakarta Authentication Policy Provider

The elytron subsystem provides a built-in policy provider based on Jakarta Authorization specification. To create the policy provider you can execute the following management CLI command:

Enable Jakarta Authentication to a Web Deployment

Once a Jakarta Authorization policy provider is defined, you can enable Jakarta Authorization for web deployments by executing the following command:

Enable Jakarta Authentication to an Jakarta Enterprise Beans Deployment

Once a Jakarta Authorization policy provider is defined, you can enable Jakarta Authorization for Jakarta Enterprise Beans deployments by executing the following command:

Creating a Custom Elytron Policy Provider

A custom policy provider is used when you need a custom java.security.Policy, like when you want to integrate with some external authorization service in order to check permissions. To create a custom policy provider, you will need to implement the java.security.Policy, create and plug in a custom module with the implementation and use the implementation from the module in the elytron subsystem.