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I wish to set up a ActiveMQ instance (primarily as a STOMP server) which will service requests from two types of clients:

  1. authenticated users which can read and write to topics
  2. non-authenticated users which can only read from topics

I have been using the SimpleAuthenticationBroker so far and I cannot see anyway to configure the above situation, nor do I see any bit in the code which recognises a wildcard for a user to pass authentication.

If I configure the server to use the authentication broker, it will expect ALL connections to authenticate, which is what I don't want.

The only solution I think I can see is to provide my own implementation to support the functionality I require, but I would love to find some way built into the server.

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This is not currently supported by ActiveMQ security implementation, but you can always define a user that can connect without a password with read-only privileges.

You can raise Jira enhancement request (https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ) for this non-authenticated users feature and better yet provide a patch for current plugins.

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Thanks for the reply - I really need a way of connecting without username and password with anonymous user due to the need to fulfil a specific requirement, so I'll have a go at my own implementation and providing a patch. –  magicbadger Jan 16 '09 at 16:27
Done - issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2081 –  magicbadger Jan 20 '09 at 17:36

This feature is now available as of ActiveMQ 5.4, as I've just found when searching for the same functionality: http://activemq.apache.org/security.html

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