Thanks for your feedback. I already worried about that. But as it
still sounds like a nice solution to have SSO for LiveServer, let's
give it a try. As I am not much expierienced with these kind of things
(Tomcat authentication, NTLM in general and the way how to connect
that to LiveServer), I think this will be a good deal of work...

On Apr 7, 5:24 pm, "Henry Lu a.k.a. Javahand" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Daniel--
>
> Implementation on a Windoze box with IIS will surely make the NT token
> passing much easier than what you are faced with.
>
> Since you are a 'nux box, your best battle field would be the app server --
> Tomcat, rather than the OS. There's a lot of Tomcat based NTLM or AD
> authentication done and you should be able to google and find a bunch of
> examples.
>
> Sounds like its time for you to roll up your sleeves and start putting some
> .jsp pages in that sacred "/cps/" directory.
>
> Have fun.
>
> Henry Lu
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Henry,
>
> > thank you very much for your post. It was not my intention to sound
> > off the import method. I think it works wonderful, but the data in our
> > AD is very inconsistent (maintained by a lot of people in different
> > locations during some years now). So not the import method is my
> > problem (of course), but the fact that the user management of
> > LiveServer handles the user names case sensitive (combined with the
> > fact that we have "bad" data :) ). Correct me if I'm wrong, but nobody
> > will ever be so mad and have a user john.doe and a John.Doe for two
> > different persons.
>
> > The point I think is in between the two steps you described. Mr. John
> > Doe is imported as John.Doe, but likes to authenticate as john.doe. So
> > LiveServer does take this as a "new" user.
>
> > But your point about the NT Challenge/Response process sounds very
> > interesting to me, because it would be even better if users don't have
> > to enter a username/password. Where do I find some more details about
> > setting this up for LiveServer (on a debian/tomcat/mysql combination)?
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Daniel
>
> > On 7 Apr., 15:07, "Henry Lu a.k.a. Javahand" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Daniel--
>
> > > Something sounds a little off on your "import" method.
>
> > > The connector to AD should be able to import users -- on basis of desired
> > > filtration -- directly from AD repository on scheduled basis. So whatever
> > > case the username is stored, it gets imported verbatim into to LiveServer
> > > user directory.
>
> > > Further, authentication of a user can be against AD directly. Once a user
> > is
> > > already authenticated, the proper method should be just to log the user
> > in
> > > using the "trusted" dynament. *
>
> > > In my afore-prescribed scenario, whatever John Joe chooses to type in, as
> > > long as AD OK's it, LiveServer goes along and just keeps on copy of John
> > > Joe's profile originally imported from AD.
>
> > > Let me know if this makes sense to you.
>
> > > Henry Lu, a.k.a. Javahand
>
> > > P.S.: * I believe the NT Challenge/Response process pushes the AD-stored
> > > username (with case integrity from AD repository) into the browser
> > session,
> > > thus guaranteeing a case match between the browser-carried username and
> > > LiveServer stored username.
>
> > > Of course, if you are using the user-typed username from the form, you
> > are
> > > at the risk of a mis-match.
>
> > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hey guys,
>
> > > > we are facing the issue that when logging on to the OT Delievery
> > > > Server (former LiveServer) the username and password is case
> > > > sensitive. For passwords this seems normal, but our users have
> > > > problems with typing the username case sensitive. We authenticate the
> > > > users via a Directory Server connector in a MS Active Directory and
> > > > import them after a correct login. That means AD authenticates all
> > > > users correctly nevertheless if he is spelled john.doe, John.doe,
> > > > JOhn.dOE, and so on, so he is imported to the local user directory.
> > > > And so there are a lot of duplicated that don't have consistent groups
> > > > as there are some groups maintained in the Delievery Server User
> > > > database.
>
> > > > The point is we imported a lot of users through the connector and the
> > > > user names of these where not consistent, either. So the "simple
> > > > solution" to have a toLower() function at the login form, will not
> > > > work.
>
> > > > I already contacted the support a while ago and they said this
> > > > behaviour will not be changed in the future. Did someone have the same
> > > > problem and maybe had an idea how to solve this?
>
> > > > Any help is appreciated.
> > > > Thanks a lot,
> > > > Daniel
>
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