Securing the management interfaces

One of the most important tasks for the system administrator is restricting access to the server management interfaces. Without a security policy, every user can gain access to the application server and modify its properties.

The attribute that is used to switch on security on the management interface is a security realm that needs to be defined within the security-realms section. Have a look at the following code:

<management>
    <security-realms>
        <security-realm name="ManagementRealm">
            <authentication>
                <local default-user="$local" skip-group-loading="true"/>
                <properties path="mgmt-users.properties" relative-to="jboss.server.config.dir"/>
            </authentication>
            <authorization map-groups-to-roles="false">
                <properties path="mgmt-groups.properties" relative...