RFR: 8311532: Option to disable Krb5LoginModule::login method

[Eirik Bjorsnos]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:08:56 GMT, Alexey Bakhtin <abakhtin at openjdk.org> wrote:

> JGSS is implemented in the JVM in 2 levels: the standard Java security provider for Kerberos in sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5MechFactory and the JAAS login module for Kerberos in com.sun.security.auth.module.Krb5LoginModule. The problem is that in this hierarchy, the login module doesn't go through the provider, but tries to read the credential cache (which is blocked by the credential guard in Win platform). This is not an issue if Kerberos is used via the JGSS API because it automatically does the JAAS login as needed, and won't do it at all if a native implementation is used. However many libraries (even some built-in ones in the JVM) still needlessly call login() before using JGSS.
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> This patch represents the configuration option ( `“doNotLogin”` ) to allow skipping the login, with a system property (`“sun.security.auth.skipLogin”`) to set the default value if this option is not provided. This way it would not break the regular Java Kerberos provider and allow users to both individually (via JAAS configs) and globally (via the property) set the expected behavior

`sun.security.auth.doNotLogin` does not indicate at all that this property  is related to Kerberos.

Would it be worth adding `krb5` somewhere in the name, something like:

`sun.security.auth.krb5.doNotLogin` ?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15254#issuecomment-1678024245