My guess would be that your Apache does not pass the REMOTE_USER field properly to your Tomcat instance I'm not sure what's needed for that.
Ludovic Everitt, Glenn wrote: > > My configuration does authentication in Apache and then passes the > pre-authenticated request to Tomcat. It looks like the class > > com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.AppServerTrustedAuthServiceImpl assumes > the authentication has already occurred and creates an Xwiki user > which is what I think I want. So, I thought all I had to do was add a > line to the xwiki.cfg file like this: > > xwiki.authentication.authclass=com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.AppServerTrustedAuthServiceImpl > > > > But it didn't seem to work so I turned on debugging log4j.properties > with this: > > log4j.logger.com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki=debug > > And this showed up in my xwiki.log: > > 17:21:20,996 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Checking match: XWiki.XWikiGuest in > 17:21:20,996 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Checking match: XWiki.XWikiGuest in > 17:21:20,997 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Failed match: XWiki.XWikiGuest in > 17:21:20,997 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Checking object 2 > 17:21:20,997 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Checking match: view in view,register, > 17:21:20,997 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Found a right for true > 17:21:20,997 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Checking match: XWiki.XWikiGuest in XWiki.XWikiGuest, > > 17:21:20,997 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Checking match: XWiki.XWikiGuest in XWiki.XWikiGuest > > 17:21:20,998 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Found matching right in XWiki.XWikiGuest, for XWiki.XWikiGuest > > 17:21:20,998 [TP-Processor2] DEBUG xwiki.XWikiRightServiceImpl - > Access has been granted for (XWiki.XWikiGuest,Panels.MyRecentModif > > It doesn't seem to be using the AppServerTrustedAuthServiceImpl > because the expected log statements don't appear in the log file. Any > suggestions on how to properly configure > AppServerTrustedAuthServiceImpl ?? > > Any help greatly appreciated - Glenn > > > The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. > It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the > named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, > or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please > notify us immediately and then destroy it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

