QPID-873 : Authentication Exception should be hard error; also NPE in PropertiesPrincipalDatabase when user not known

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/qpid/branches/M2.1@640417 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/java/broker/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/server/security/auth/database/PropertiesPrincipalDatabase.java b/java/broker/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/server/security/auth/database/PropertiesPrincipalDatabase.java
index 73d58ca489..c8a4add0f1 100644
--- a/java/broker/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/server/security/auth/database/PropertiesPrincipalDatabase.java
+++ b/java/broker/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/server/security/auth/database/PropertiesPrincipalDatabase.java
@@ -69,10 +69,14 @@ public class PropertiesPrincipalDatabase implements PrincipalDatabase
         {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("principal must not be null");
         }
-        char[] pwd = _users.getProperty(principal.getName()).toCharArray();
+
+
+
+        final String pwd = _users.getProperty(principal.getName());
+
         if (pwd != null)
         {
-            callback.setPassword(pwd);
+            callback.setPassword(pwd.toCharArray());
         }
         else
         {