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Where's the login.conf file?

Due to Because of some limitations in the default configuration implementation,

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Geronimo replaces login.conf entirely with one security realms that is are configured via by GenericSecurityRealm GBeans.

This lets you You can deploy the security realm that you need with your application and allows you to dynamically add the login module classes to the server as needed. You can also distinguish between the same principal principals when they are created by different login modules or security realms.

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• org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm.KERNEL - the Geronimo kernel
• org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm.SERVERINFO - the ServerInfo object that lets you find stuff in the Geronimo server file layout
• org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm.CLASSLOADER - the classloader of the plugin that defines the security realm. Note that this may might be different from the classloader of a plugin that is using the security realm.

If you specify wrap-principals as false, your login module will work as usual and only its principals will get into the Subject. However if you specify wrap-principals as true, Geronimo will also add principals that wrap your principals and include the login-domain-name and realm-name of the login module and security realm that created the principal. This enables your role-principal mapping to distinguish between the "same" principal that comes from different sources. For instance, if you had two ldap LDAP servers where the groups had the same names but the meaning was different (perhaps users from different departments), you can wrap the principals yet still distinguish the same group based on the different realms. However, in order to distinguish principals in this way, we supply each login module with its own empty Subject object. Therefore, a later login module cannot access the principals added to a Subject by an earlier login module. If you need to share information between login modules and also wrap principals, you must use the shared state map and not the Subject.