Can't disable guest access

I have been trying to disable the guest account. I have found
that if a client creates an initial context without specifying
any security credentials then they still get access to the system
as 'guest' regardless of whether the guest user is disabled or
not. I have also tried to change the guest password to no avail.
Is there a fix for this? I am using wls 5.1.
Thanks, Jim

so, the story here is that the difference between guest/Anonymous and
guest/defaultUser was never really enunciated so far in WLS. the
end-of-year release is working to get a solid resolution of these
differences and the access control thereof. But, the short term deal is that
by disabling guest, you turn off the guest/Anonymous access, but not the
guest/defaultUser access (which has no access control handle). so, the
solution/work-around for WLS5.1 is to simply put an ACL on anything you wish
to protect.
.paul
Kirk Everett wrote:
I contacted weblogic about this and this is what they said:
This is in response to the your case titled "Security Realm / guest
problems". I could reproduce this at my end, and think this is a defect.
I
have filed a Change request for this in our defect tracking system. This
will go to engineering and should get fixed in one of our near service
pack
releases. The defect number (which you can use to track the status of
this
defect) for this is CR036608.
I will be closing this case as now you can track this defect using
the
above CR number. You will see this CR number in the service pack release
notes, whenever this gets fixed.
Let me know if you have any questions/issues regarding this.
And for the workaround, I would suggest you to protect your EJBs
using
security policies in the XML deployment descriptor files, by explicitly
mentioning the users/groups who would be allowed access to Beans.
Jim Corkey wrote:
I have been trying to disable the guest account. I have found
that if a client creates an initial context without specifying
any security credentials then they still get access to the system
as 'guest' regardless of whether the guest user is disabled or
not. I have also tried to change the guest password to no avail.
Is there a fix for this? I am using wls 5.1.
Thanks, Jim

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