Re: CORBA and GSSUP fix -- please review

2006-02-13 Thread Jeppe Sommer (Trifork)
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] form is also what we use in the Trifork Server/ORB... Andy Piper wrote: At 03:51 PM 2/10/2006, Aaron Mulder wrote: Just to be clear, I'm talking about GSSUP authentication (where the client sends a token containing a username and password and an encoded domain name) not

Re: CORBA and GSSUP fix -- please review

2006-02-10 Thread Jeppe Sommer (Trifork)
According to the CORBA 3.0.3 spec (and I believe the original CSIv2 spec says the same): Scoped-Username GSS Name Form The scoped-username GSS name form is defined as follows, where name_value and name_scope contain a sequence of 1 or more UTF8 encoded characters. scoped-username ::=

Re: Question about web app login, user principal, and authentication

2006-01-09 Thread Jeppe Sommer (Trifork)
to reauthenticate repeatedly, I don't think that it is commonly expected that a user is immediatly kicked out of live login sessions if the sysadm changes the password (talking IT systems in general). Cheers, Jeppe Greg Wilkins wrote: Jeppe Sommer wrote: I think that it is possible to read from

Re: Question about web app login, user principal, and authentication

2006-01-08 Thread Jeppe Sommer
I think that it is possible to read from the servlet spec that getUserPrincipal should return the current principal for an unprotected resource. Take the following quote (servlet 2.4, section 12.10): Being logged in to a web application corresponds precisely to there being a valid non-null

Re: Question about web app login, user principal, and authentication

2006-01-06 Thread Jeppe Sommer (Trifork)
The servlet 2.4 spec, section 12.7 states: A security identity, or principal, must always be provided for use in a call to an enterprise bean. The default mode in calls to enterprise beans from web applications is for the security identity of a web user to be propagated to the EJBTM