Can VM transport bypass broker authentication in ActiveMQ? Why would the broker want to authenticate connections coming from within the VM?
I'm using JAAS authentication through LDAP and I don't think admins will create a PROD account for me just so my VM transport can connect to broker (since such account can be used to log in to the App too)
Nope, if your broker is secured then the VM Transport is not the way around this. The Transport simply avoid writing data to a TCP or other IO stream but it doesn't circumvent the protections put in place by your broker configuration.