Re: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-20 Thread Brooke Hedrick
I use OpenAM. It is free and source is free. A tomcat server does all of the authentication and authorization. But what is nice is that there is an apache module so you can do all of the enforcement at your web server. Then all other tomcat servers being proxied by that same web server can be se

Re: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-20 Thread André Warnier
Terence M. Bandoian wrote: On 1:59 PM, chris derham wrote: But for _transparent_ authentication IIS is required as Christopher mentioned. That is not true. You can use SPNEGO to setup transparent authentication directly to tomcat. You do not need IIS. This means that a browser accesses a prot

Re: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-16 Thread Terence M. Bandoian
On 1:59 PM, chris derham wrote: But for _transparent_ authentication IIS is required as Christopher mentioned. That is not true. You can use SPNEGO to setup transparent authentication directly to tomcat. You do not need IIS. This means that a browser accesses a protected url on the server, and

Re: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-16 Thread chris derham
> > But for _transparent_ authentication IIS is required as Christopher > mentioned. > > That is not true. You can use SPNEGO to setup transparent authentication directly to tomcat. You do not need IIS. This means that a browser accesses a protected url on the server, and the server and browser "di

RE: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-16 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hello, >As Ilya hints, you'll have to use NTLM to get this to work. IIRC, this >requires that you use IIS with mod_jk to capture the authentication >information and forward it over to Tomcat. If you want to be able to >use NTLM for authentication into your webapp, you'll need to use a >specific ty

Re: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh, On 11/14/11 1:18 PM, Josh Gooding wrote: > Question. I'm developing an application that resides on a network. > I wondered if (and how) there was a way to use the users network > authentication as a valid authentication into this application?

RE: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-14 Thread Villalobos, Ricardo
> -Original Message- > From: Ilya Kazakevich [mailto:ilya.kazakev...@jetbrains.com] > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 1:27 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Grabbing the user's info > > Hello, > > What do you call "network au

RE: Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-14 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
i.org/wiki/ActiveDirectoryIntegration Ilya Kazakevich, Developer JetBrains Inc http://www.jetbrains.com "Develop with pleasure!" -Original Message- From: Josh Gooding [mailto:josh.good...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 10:19 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Grabbing

Grabbing the user's info

2011-11-14 Thread Josh Gooding
Hey guys, Question. I'm developing an application that resides on a network. I wondered if (and how) there was a way to use the users network authentication as a valid authentication into this application? - Josh