Authenticating client requests in stand-alone environments

Unless clients are authenticated, access to grid data and JMX management operations that control the grid are left unprotected. This is true even if SSL is enabled.

About this task

The authentication behavior that eXtreme Scale servers require of eXtreme Scale clients is determined by the credentialAuthentication=required setting in the server.properties file.

When credentialAuthentication is set to Required or Supported, more configuration is needed, as described in the following steps. These steps are described in more detail, with examples of the changes to the configuration files in Java SE security tutorial - Step 3.

Procedure

What to do next

Authorizing access to the data grid in stand-alone environments