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  1. PicketBox
  2. SECURITY-861

org.jboss.security.client.SecurityClient#login() requires unusual permissions

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      In order to do a security client login, the caller needs to have (at least) the permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "org.jboss.security.getSecurityContext".

      Leaving aside that RuntimePermission should not be used for things like this, the point of having a login method is to abstract the security context manipulation away. Surely if some permission check is needed, the permission should be something specific to logging in (though in my opinion, no permission should be necessary here).

      The exact example stack trace is:

      15:09:20,307 SEVERE [org.jboss.arquillian.protocol.jmx.JMXTestRunner] (pool-1-thread-1) Failed: org.jboss.as.test.integration.ejb.security.RunAsPrincipalTestCase.testAnonymous: java.security.AccessControlException: WFSM000001: Permission check failed (permission "("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "org.jboss.security.getSecurityContext")" in code source "(vfs:/content/runasprincipal-test.war/WEB-INF/classes <no signer certificates>)" of "null")
              at org.wildfly.security.manager.WildFlySecurityManager.checkPermission(WildFlySecurityManager.java:264) [wildfly-security-manager-1.0.2.Final-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.0.2.Final-SNAPSHOT]
              at org.wildfly.security.manager.WildFlySecurityManager.checkPermission(WildFlySecurityManager.java:169) [wildfly-security-manager-1.0.2.Final-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.0.2.Final-SNAPSHOT]
              at org.jboss.security.SecurityContextAssociation.getSecurityContext(SecurityContextAssociation.java:145) [picketbox-4.0.21.Beta3.jar:4.0.21.Beta3]
              at org.jboss.security.client.JBossSecurityClient.performSimpleLogin(JBossSecurityClient.java:77) [picketbox-4.0.21.Beta3.jar:4.0.21.Beta3]
              at org.jboss.security.client.SecurityClient.login(SecurityClient.java:74) [picketbox-4.0.21.Beta3.jar:4.0.21.Beta3]
              at org.jboss.as.test.integration.ejb.security.RunAsPrincipalTestCase.testAnonymous(RunAsPrincipalTestCase.java:173) [classes:]
      

      Here's the testAnonymous method:

          @Test
          public void testAnonymous() throws Exception {
              SecurityClient client = SecurityClientFactory.getSecurityClient();
              client.setSimple("user1", "password1");
              client.login(); // this is line 173
              try {
                  WhoAmI bean = lookupCaller();
                  String actual = bean.getCallerPrincipal();
                  Assert.assertEquals("anonymous", actual);
              } finally {
                  client.logout();
              }
          }
      

            sguilhen Stefan Guilhen
            dlloyd@redhat.com David Lloyd
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