Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Thomas
Johnny Kewl wrote: I dont think you can do what you want to... I dont think you can use web based DIGEST authentication. And then hide passwords in a MD5 digest as well. Yes you can. I think web based DIGEST authentication, MUST get at the plain text password. No. That process has to be

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas wrote: Johnny Kewl wrote: I dont think you can do what you want to... I dont think you can use web based DIGEST authentication. And then hide passwords in a MD5 digest as well. Yes you can. I think web based DIGEST authentication, MUST get at the plain text password. No.

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Thomas
zhongliang zhang wrote: Hi,Mark, I have to turn to you again. I encounter the problem with configuring the Digested-Password in the JDBCRealm. The JDBCRealm fragment of the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml is shown as followed: Realm className=org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread zhongliang zhang
thanks very much for all your replying. But I can not make it works. I store the password in HexUtils.convert(byte[]) method to store the password in my Oracle database. And I configure the Tomcat JDBCRealm with the digest attribute. And I do a test with MySQL database,for it is small and

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread zhongliang zhang
Hi, It still does not work. Here is the trace: I create the SHA1 password from the command prompt: C:\tomcatjava org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase -a SHA1 zhangzhongl:JDBCRealm :secret zhangzhongl:JDBCRealm:secret:0743d07d727aae8864569cbcefb9ae788150e8b9 C:\tomcatjava

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread Johnny Kewl
Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? Mark Thomas wrote: Johnny Kewl wrote: I dont think you can do what you want to... I dont think you can use web based DIGEST

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread Johnny Kewl
zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:28 AM Subject: RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? Hi, It still does not work. Here is the trace: I create the SHA1 password from the command prompt: C:\tomcatjava

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread zhongliang zhang
thanks for your replying. Now It works if I specify the alg with MD5,but still does not work with SHA. and I do not know what does the middle field of zhangzhongl:JDBCRealm:secret means,that is,the JDBCRealm,is it a unchangeable part?I do not think so,for the Tomcat docs give an example of

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-04 Thread Johnny Kewl
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Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-02 Thread Johnny Kewl
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:14 AM Subject: RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? Hi,Mark, I have to turn to you again. I encounter the problem with configuring the Digested-Password in the JDBCRealm. The JDBCRealm fragment of the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml is shown

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-01 Thread Mark Thomas
zhongliang zhang wrote: Thanks a lot.I think I got another way to solve the group hierarchical problem,but I am not sure about it. maybe you can help me to confirm it:I wrote the SQL as followed:create or replace view groupview asselect usertable.username,

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-01 Thread zhongliang zhang
Thank you very much for all your reply. I think because of the time-zone between us,while I am in China,we do not have the same online time. so I replied late. I will try that way to specify the digest element. thanks a lot. I do not know whether that feature works well with Tomcat 5.5,if so,I

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-11-01 Thread zhongliang zhang
Hi,Mark, I have to turn to you again. I encounter the problem with configuring the Digested-Password in the JDBCRealm. The JDBCRealm fragment of the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml is shown as followed: Realm className=org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm driverName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-31 Thread Mark Thomas
zhongliang zhang wrote: But the application allows creating new group,how do I solve this problem? What problem? You need to say what the problem is if we are going to be able to help. web.xml doesn't support the dynamic addition of new groups. Further, the Realm doesn't understand the

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-31 Thread zhongliang zhang
, 31 Oct 2007 10:51:42 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? zhongliang zhang wrote: But the application allows creating new group,how do I solve this problem? What problem? You need to say what the problem

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Lucas Galfaso
Hi, Digest authentication involves multiple MD5s including the username, password, url, realm, random data... Believe me when I tell you that there is no way that you will get the password from the digest (in fact, it was designed this way so this is not feasible.) For your original

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread zhongliang zhang
-0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? Hi, Digest authentication involves multiple MD5s including the username, password, url, realm, random data... Believe me when I tell you that there is no way that you

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Thomas
zhongliang zhang wrote: I checked the url that you supplied to me and expecially the JDBCRealm part,for I have stored the username and password in a relational database. So,what I need to do is: 1.build the users table and the roles table. 2.configure the org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Roger Parkinson
Think about it the other way around. User types cleartext password, tomcat's authentication digests it and then compares with what is on the database. So when they change the password you need to capture the password in cleartext, digest it yourself, then store it. You don't need to decrypt it,

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger, Roger Parkinson wrote: Think about it the other way around. User types cleartext password, tomcat's authentication digests it and then compares with what is on the database. They're talking about HTTP Auth, not Realms and stuff like that.

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread zhongliang zhang
in the remote client with an browser will be digested,and sent to the server side. Is that right? Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:33:08 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Thomas
zhongliang zhang wrote: Thanks a lot for everyone's reply. I use the JDBCRealm and I store the users information and roles information in the database,such as Oracle. then in my application set the security part in the web.xml,which has an auth-method with DIGEST. So,the username and

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Thomas
zhongliang zhang wrote: In the database(Oracle),the tables I used are usertable and grouptable,the association table of them is groupmembertable: usertable has columns of userid,username and password grouptable has columns of groupid,groupname groupmembertable has columns of groupid,userid

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread zhongliang zhang
@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? zhongliang zhang wrote: Thanks a lot for everyone's reply. I use the JDBCRealm and I store the users information and roles information in the database,such as Oracle. then in my application set the security part

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread zhongliang zhang
needs configuration,not coding? thanks a lot for your patience! Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:47:27 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication? zhongliang zhang wrote: In the database(Oracle),the tables I used

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark, Mark Thomas wrote: The special role * means all roles defined in your application, not all authenticated users. You'll have to create an all users group, assign it to every user and then use that in your web.xml I think it is more precise

RE: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread zhongliang zhang
But the application allows creating new group,how do I solve this problem? What problem? You need to say what the problem is if we are going to be able to help. Only the member of group administrators have access to the adminitrative page,and other groups,like groupA,groupB,... the member

Re: [tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Thomas
zhongliang zhang wrote: thanks a lot. In fact,I want just one group's user named Administrators can get access to the administrative page,which can do some privileged operation.The common users can get access to the common user page,they have limited privileged operation. So,should I

[tomcat]How to decrypt the DIGEST authentication?

2007-10-29 Thread zhongliang zhang
Hi,everyone, I got a problem with the DIGEST authentication. I configured my web.xml as followed: security-constraint web-resource-collection web-resource-nameapp/web-resource-name url-pattern/*/url-pattern