Weblogic.xml only accepts users as principals?

Question

I've got a custom security realm with several users and groups in WLS6. I'm trying
to make it so the "everyone" group is the principal allowed to access a webapp:
     <security-role-assignment>
     <role-name>everyone</role-name>
     <principal-name>everyone</principal-name>
     </security-role-assignment>
When I do this, no one can access the webapp (despite the fact that all the users
are members of this group). When I replace the everyone principal with an enumerated
list of users instead, login works fine.
So... why can't groups be used as principals?
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Answer 1

Hi,
The authenticate method would take the user and the password details from the environment
(env) that is passed and after successful authentication would populate the subject with
the principals (i.e user, group the user belongs to ..)
It should work with any user that is defined in the WLS not just weblogic/weblogic.
Do you have any other users defined and which group do they belong to?
Vimala
Khalid Rizvi wrote:
I am playing (learning) with weblogic.security.auth.login.UsernamePasswordLoginModule
as a LoginModule using JAAS based authentication. Surprisingly, the only userid
and password combination acceptable is uid=weblogic, pw=weblogic combination.
I went through and looked at the example code under
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/security/cli_apps.html#1042212. I found that
the UsernamePasswordLoginModule.login calls into
if (url != null) {
Environment env = new Environment();
env.setProviderUrl(url);
env.setSecurityPrincipal(username);
env.setSecurityCredentials(password);
try {
Authenticate.authenticate(env, subject);
Seems like UsernamePasswordLoginModule only is a router, as it instantiates an
instance of Environemt using the userid and password and passes this Environemtn
instance (env) to Authenticate.authenticate along with the empty Subject instance.
I read about that the Subject instance will be filled in with Principals by the
WL Server.
My question is that firstly,
1. As Authenticate.authenticate is not passed in the uid and pw, will it pick
those from the env?
2. Secondly, why does it only accept uid=weblogic & pw=weblogic.
I will appreciate if some one can put me in the right direction.
Khalid R. Rizvi
508-641-1192
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