ASDomainController

You can use the ASDomainController example as a security domain controller when running the rest of the ActiveSpaces examples with security. ASDomainController uses a security policy file to connect to a metaspace and become a security domain controller for the metaspace.

The ASDomainController example does not connect to any spaces or provide any functionality besides what is needed to act as a security domain controller. Once ASDomainController successfully connects to a metaspace, it loops, waiting for user input to tell it to shut down.

  • Starting ASDomainController
  • ASDomainController Options
    Once the ASDomainController example starts, you can then start other examples using security. ASDomainController acts as the security domain controller for the metaspace it connects to. In the above example invocation, the default metaspace named ms is connected to by ASDomainController. To have ASDomainController act as the security domain controller for a different metaspace, use the -metaspace command line argument to specify the name of the desired metaspace.
  • Enabling User Authentication
    Using the example security policy file, example_policy.txt, you can easily enable user authentication using your local operating system for authentication. When user authentication is enabled, any of the examples, which are started with security using the security token file exdomain_token.txt will prompt the user for their domain name, user name and password when trying to connect to a metaspace in the 'exdomain' security domain.