# Welcome to the JAAS Authentication and Authorization Demo

## Setup Instructions

For this demo to work, you must be running jetty with the etc/jetty-jaas.xml included on the runline:

        java -jar start.jar etc/jetty.xml etc/jetty-jaas.xml

## Using the Demo

Click on the following link to test JAAS AUTHENTICATION and role-based web security constraint AUTHORIZATION.

This demo uses a simple login module that stores it's configuration in a properties file. There are other types of login module provided with the jetty distro. For full information, please refer to the jetty JAAS wiki page at: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/JAAS.

To authenticate successfully with this demonstration, you must use username="me" with password="me". All other usernames, passwords should result in authentication failure.

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