RE: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator
Hi there. I also am interested in exchanging the authenticator. But I could not find the properties file mentioned below in Tomcat 4.1.8. However I found the NonLoginAuthenticator (exactly what I was trying to do), and a properties file in org.apache.catalina.startup. Do I understand correctly that this authenticator is activated just by specifying auth-methodNONE/auth-method in web.xml? Hiran - Hiran Chaudhuri SAG Systemhaus GmbH Elsenheimerstra?e 11 80687 Munchen Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-89-54742-134 Fax +49-6151-9234-5134 -Original Message- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 2:52 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Tim McLaughlin wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:00:17 -0700 From: Tim McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator Hello, The Question: How do I specify a class other than org.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator to handle Basic authentication? There is a properties file in the org.apache.catalina.authenticator package that defines the mapping of authentication method to classname. You would need to customize this file in $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina.jar. Or, an easier approach would be to copy your customized version of this file into the $CATALINA_HOME/server/classes/org/apache/catalina/authenticato r directory (which you'd have to create). This works because the Catalina class loaders load from the classes directory before they load from JAR files in the corresponding lib directory -- this works both for the server class loader (server/classes before server/lib), the common class loader (common/classes before common/lib) and the webapp class loader (WEB-INF/classes before WEB-INF/lib). Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator
On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 05:51 , Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Tim McLaughlin wrote: The Question: How do I specify a class other than org.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator to handle Basic authentication? There is a properties file in the org.apache.catalina.authenticator package that defines the mapping of authentication method to classname. You would need to customize this file in $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina.jar. Or, an easier approach would be to copy your customized version of this file into the $CATALINA_HOME/server/classes/org/apache/catalina/authenticator directory (which you'd have to create). This works because the Catalina class loaders load from the classes directory before they load from JAR files in the corresponding lib directory -- this works both for the server class loader (server/classes before server/lib), the common class loader (common/classes before common/lib) and the webapp class loader (WEB-INF/classes before WEB-INF/lib). The only properties file I found in src/share/org/apache/catalina/authenticator directory was for the LocalStrings translations. However, the package.html file mentioned the src/share/org/apache/catalina/startup/Authenticators.properties file. I have created a copy in $CATALINA_HOME/server/webapps/pc- manager/WEB- INF/classes/org/apache/catalina/startup/Authenticator.properties and specified my custom class, PerContextBasicAuthenticator for BASIC. I then restarted tomcat, but the log shows that it is not using my class (debug=3), instead using the default class. So I moved the new file to $CATALINA_HOME/server/classes/org/apache/catalina/startup/Authenticator.properties and then it works. When I specify a class to handle BASIC authentication, do I have to do it server-wide, or can I do it on a per-context basis? Thanks, Tim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Tim McLaughlin wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:00:17 -0700 From: Tim McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator Hello, The Question: How do I specify a class other than org.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator to handle Basic authentication? There is a properties file in the org.apache.catalina.authenticator package that defines the mapping of authentication method to classname. You would need to customize this file in $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina.jar. Or, an easier approach would be to copy your customized version of this file into the $CATALINA_HOME/server/classes/org/apache/catalina/authenticator directory (which you'd have to create). This works because the Catalina class loaders load from the classes directory before they load from JAR files in the corresponding lib directory -- this works both for the server class loader (server/classes before server/lib), the common class loader (common/classes before common/lib) and the webapp class loader (WEB-INF/classes before WEB-INF/lib). Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
