Using XmlSecurityManager

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If you're using a DBSecurityManager you know that it authenticates users against a database. In some cases you don't have a database and you must authenticate with a XML file or a third party product.

If you want to authenticate with a XML file, it's very easy because JVx has a standard implementation for this case. It's very easy to configure a XmlSecurityManager:

Add following to your config.xml:

<securitymanager>
  <class>com.sibvisions.rad.server.security.XmlSecurityManager</class>
  <userfile>users.xml</userfile>
</securitymanager>

Your users.xml should be stored in the same directory as your config.xml or you could define the full qualified path. The user-file should contain the list of valid users:

users.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
 
<users>
  <user name="admin" password="admin"/>
  <user name="user" password="user"/>
</users>

With above configuration, an application user will be authenticated against a XML file.