Dick,
Assuming this is addressed to me because I recall ranting on this issue once
or twice, my old group has a fairly well integrated setup where Apache HTTPD
provides authentication against the Windows domain controller using
mod_kerberos and then passes the appropriate headers on the applications
sitting behind it, which are fairly heterogenous in their infrastructure
(Tomcat, Jetty, mod_wsgi, Phusion Passenger, PHP).  Being able to play
nicely in that setup was an important requirement.  It's so hard to get
people to try something new, and not making them type in a username and
password provides a alleviates a surprising amount of resistance.

But a little over a year ago I became fed up with the politics in enterprise
systems, especially those with a Web 2.0 nature, and made a fairly extreme
horizontal career move.  So while I have great respect for what's been
achieved so far with ESME and continue to watch the project, my interest is
almost purely academic.

Regards,
Erik

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]>wrote:

> @Eric - saw that you are integrating CAS into your environment. You
> may interested in this ESME JIRA item "Add container-based
> authentication"
>
> D.
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-214
>

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