Re: Securing Tomcat Context Descriptor

2005-08-20 Thread Mark Thomas
A couple of observations: - If someone can read the context descriptor they pretty much own Tomcat and probably the server as well. If this person is unauthorised, you have big problems regardless of whether or not they have read-only access to the database. - If the password is encrypted, whe

Re: Securing Tomcat Context Descriptor

2005-08-20 Thread Peter Rossbach
I thing you can use the Java Security Manager and OS level file permisssion for this or wrote your own DataSource JNDI Factory. Peter Brett Parsons schrieb: Hi All, There is a requirement on the server that we have Tomcat 5.0.28 deployed that no username/password information can be stored i

Securing Tomcat Context Descriptor

2005-08-19 Thread Brett Parsons
Hi All, There is a requirement on the server that we have Tomcat 5.0.28 deployed that no username/password information can be stored in plaintext (in the open). Like many people, we are using JNDI datasources in our web application. The datasource connection information (including the databa