Simple Login Module in JBoss EAP 6 for Testing

Introduction

When testing locally or in integration tests, it is convenient to use a simple login module. Source code.

Configuration

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:security:1.2">
    <security-domains>
        ...
        <security-domain name="simple-policy" cache-type="default">
            <authentication>
                <login-module code="org.jboss.security.auth.spi.SimpleServerLoginModule" flag="required"/>
            </authentication>
        </security-domain>
    </security-domains>
</subsystem>

Test Web App

WEB-INF/web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
    version="3.0">
 
    <security-constraint>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Secure Content</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>

        <auth-constraint>
            <role-name>user</role-name>
        </auth-constraint>
    </security-constraint>

    <login-config>
        <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
        <realm-name>simple-policy</realm-name>
    </login-config>

    <security-role>
        <role-name>user</role-name>
    </security-role>
</web-app>

WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-web>
    <context-root>/example-webapp</context-root>
    <security-domain>java:/jaas/simple-policy</security-domain>
</jboss-web>