Simple password security

[SteveHicks]

I'm looking at adding a simple user name / password security check to my Ice server (in Java), passing the credentials in the context for each call. Is there some way I can add the checking code in a generic way (in an interceptor or plugin), rather than having to put the same line at the start of each one of my implemented methods? Is there a way to hook in to e.g. the __dispatch method? Or can you recommend a better way to do password-based security (using SSL and certificates would be overkill)?

Cheers,

Steve

[marc]

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[matthew]

Doing access control in every method as you've discovered is a pretty difficult and inefficient way to go about doing things. Its far better to use some authentication method at a single point (for example, upon session creation) and then give the authenticated user access to the backend objects. You can look at the session demo to see how you might go about doing something like this. An alternative would be to use Glacier2 which already does this for you.