So, to be clear, we're providing the ability to recognize a HTTP
authentication header containing 'Bearer <some encoded token string>' and
then handing that to the Security Manager to do with as it pleases?

We're not doing anything with actual token management? (i.e. generating,
revoking, etc.).

--Jens

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:59 AM Jinmei Liao <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> JWT token based authentication support is added to Geode develop branch.
> Currently only management v2 rest api can use this (we can add dev rest
> there too if requested). In order to turn on token based auth for
> management rest api, you will need to do these two things:
> 1. start your locator with this property:
>      *security-auth-token-enabled-components = all (or management)*
> 2. implement your SecurityManager to authenticate the jwt token passed in.
> The jwt token will be available in the properties using the key
> "security-token".
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jinmei
>

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