Custom login module on OC4J 10.1.3.3.0

Question

Hi,
I need to implement custom web form-based authentication on OC4J, in order to port an existing JBoss app. I was following Frank's example at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/howtos/10g/jaassec/index.htm. Trying to access protected pages will correctly redirect to the j_security_check page, and from there call my custom login module - through LoginContext. The issue is that - even if the LoginModule correctly authenticates user's credentials, the request still doesn't get through, coming back to the authentication page.
I perform the deployment using Oracle Enterprise Manager, and the relevant files are:
web.xml:
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name>testJAAS</realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/jsp/login.jsp</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/jsp/login.jsp</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<!-- Security constraints -->
<security-constraint>
     <web-resource-collection>
     <web-resource-name>Test Secure Application</web-resource-name>
     <description>Requires users to authenticate</description>
     <url-pattern>faces/*</url-pattern>
     <http-method>POST</http-method>
     <http-method>GET</http-method>
     <http-method>HEAD</http-method>     
     <http-method>PUT</http-method>     
     </web-resource-collection>     
     <auth-constraint>
     <description>Only allow role1 users</description>
     <role-name>role1</role-name>
     </auth-constraint>     
     <user-data-constraint>
     <description>Encryption is not required for the application in general. </description>
     <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
     </user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<!-- Define the security role(s) -->
<security-role>
<description>Example role</description>
<role-name>role1</role-name>
</security-role>
orion-web.xml:
schema-major-version="10" schema-minor-version="0" >
     <!-- Uncomment this element to control web application class loader behavior.
          <web-app-class-loader search-local-classes-first="true" include-war-manifest-class-path="true" />
     -->
     <resource-ref-mapping name="jdbc/lics" />
     <security-role-mapping name="role1">
          <group name="oc4j-app-administrators" />
     </security-role-mapping>
     <web-app>
     </web-app>
orion-application.xml:
     <jazn provider="XML" >
          <property name="jaas.username.simple" value="true" />
          <property name="custom.loginmodule.provider" value="true" />
          <property name="role.mapping.dynamic" value="true" />
     </jazn>
system-jazn-data.xml:
<jazn-loginconfig>
     <application>
          <name>le5</name>
          <login-modules>
               <login-module>
                    <class>com.tx.lic.oc4jsx.ext.LicLoginModule</class>
                    <control-flag>required</control-flag>
                    <options>
                         <option>
                              <name>defaultRole</name>
                              <value>role1</value>
                         </option>
                    </options>
               </login-module>
          </login-modules>
     </application>
I assume something is wrong with the deployment configuration, b/c when I specifically add users to the defined role1 role, it works fine(see below). But this is not an option, since users should only be specified in the data store of the LoginModule.
Doing as above, the orion-web.xml is below:
     <resource-ref-mapping name="jdbc/lic" />
     <security-role-mapping name="role1">
          <group name="oc4j-app-administrators" />
          <user name="user1" />
          <user name="user2" />
     </security-role-mapping>
Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
role to group mapping doesn't seem to work for custom LoginModules. This means hat your web applcation (web.xml) should use th same role names as used on the database authentication. So remove
<security-role-mapping name="role1">
<group name="oc4j-app-administrators" />
</security-role-mapping>
from orion-web.xml and it should start wrking
Frank