Re: [equinox-dev] JAAS integration (security)

["Matt Flaherty" <mwflaher@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, there's code in the pipeline -
it's in the IpZilla process at this point. Essentially, the contribution
is geared towards plugging JAAS SPIs into the system (ie: LoginModules,
CallbackHandlers and Configuration) and providing access to a platform-wide
Configuration and a LoginContext implementation that is extended in Eclipse-related
ways: events, dialog-based prompting, etc. Principals are supported via
LoginModules, the big remaining work will be integrating the LoginContext
into startup, things like the Jobs framework, and authorization decisions
for extensions, etc.

For now, toss requirements into the
wiki: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Security:_Requirements.
It might be time to start categorizing the security requirements into categories
for login/user authentication, credential management, code authentication/authorization,
etc. I'll do that this week.

-matt

equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/18/2007
03:17:28 PM:

> I've heard a rumor :) that post-Europa there will be some JAAS 
> integration bundles being contributed to Equinox for security 
> enhancements (i.e. supporting platform-level authentication...hope,
> hope, etc).
> 
> Is there any way to find out/begin review/start contributing 
> ideas/requirements/enhancements for this work for those of us not
> Equinox committers (i.e. other community members)? 
> 
> Just by way of example, for some time, ECF uses/extends the Principal
> interface for it's concept of 'IDs' (user ID, process ID, service
ID, 
> etc).  Iff the JAAS integration work provides services and/or
extension 
> points to allow other plugins (ours and those built upon ours) to
> contribute Principals and Credentials to authenticated Subjects upon
> successful authentication, we would be most happy :).
> 
> Thanksinadvance,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> 
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