Problems using JAAS with EJB 3.0 on JBoss 4.0.4-GA

Question

Hello all,
I am trying to build a very simple JavaEE application with JAAS, but I getting mad.
I have an EAR packed with a WAR module an EJB JAR module and a JAR with other classes. Struts is the MVC framework and EJB 3.0 is been used.
First of all, I configured the "login-config.xml" file within /conf directory in JBoss, like this:
<application-policy name="exemplo1">
     <authentication>
          <login-module code="org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DatabaseServerLoginModule" flag="required">
               <module-option name="dsJndiName">java:jdbc/Infra_Seguranca</module-option>
               <module-option name="principalsQuery">SELECT COD_USUARIO AS Password FROM USUARIO WHERE COD_USUARIO=?</module-option>
               <module-option name="rolesQuery">SELECT NOME_ROLE AS Roles, 'Roles' AS RoleGroups FROM ROLE_USUARIO WHERE COD_USUARIO=?</module-option>
          </login-module>
     </authentication>
</application-policy>Next I configured the "web.xml" file like this:
<security-constraint>
     <web-resource-collection>
          <web-resource-name>Restricted</web-resource-name>
          <description>Declarative security tests</description>
          <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
     </web-resource-collection>
     <auth-constraint>
          <role-name>xxx</role-name>
     </auth-constraint>
     <user-data-constraint>
          <description>no description</description>
          <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
     </user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
     <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
     <realm-name>exemplo1</realm-name>
     <form-login-config>
          <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
          <form-error-page>/loginErro.jsp</form-error-page>
     </form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
     <description>Role xxx</description>
     <role-name>xxx</role-name>
</security-role>Notice that I am using the "xxx" role to protect the "*.do" URL pattern.
The "jboss-web.xml" is like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jboss-web>
     <security-domain>java:/jaas/exemplo1</security-domain>
</jboss-web>As it is, it works perfectly, which means, every time I try to access a "*.do" URL it verifies whether I am authenticated and have authroization or not. If not, the login page shows up.
Now I wanna to be able to also protect my EJBs.
My Stateless Session Bean is implemented as follow:
@RolesAllowed("yyy")
@Stateless(name="UserManagement")
public class UserManagementBean implements UserManagement {
     public void add(User user) {
}When I run all this, the container simply igoners the @RolesAllowed("yyy") annotation and allow the EJB execution.
If I add the "jboss.xml" file, like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jboss>
     <security-domain>java:/jaas/exemplo1</security-domain>
</jboss>I start getting this stack trace:
ERROR [UsersRolesLoginModule] Failed to load users/passwords/role files
java.io.IOException: No properties file: users.properties or defaults: defaultUsers.properties found
at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.Util.loadProperties(Util.java:313)
at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule.loadUsers(UsersRolesLoginModule.java:186)
at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule.createUsers(UsersRolesLoginModule.java:200)
at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule.initialize(UsersRolesLoginModule.java:127)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
... Am I missing something? What do I have to do to get JAAS working fine with my EJBs? Do I have to also configure and/or provide "ejb-jar.xml" ???
Thanks
Daniel

Answer 1

Using @SecurityDomain("exemplo1") in my EJB and NOT providing jboss.xml, it works.
@SecurityDomain("exemplo1")
@RolesAllowed("yyy")
@Stateless(name="UserManagement")
public class UserManagementBean implements UserManagement {
  public void add(User user) {
}Damn! This is some serious shit... I don�t want to configure this in every single EJB.
EJB 3.0 is nice, but some small trivial details like this and others, that was forgotten by Sun, piss me off!