I remember when I worked for Imation we had that problem with IIS3-4 (you
can't add web users without adding them to the system, ie 1 user to IIS is
1 user to that whole machine!)
Anything to prevent this requirement would be greatly appreciated if I
rewind my experience a couple years.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Nacho wrote:
> Hola A todos:
>
> Lately I'm trying to figure out a way to bypass the basic/digest
> security handling done by ISS, and so let it be done by tomcat, as it's
> a pain under IIS as it requires to have the users created at OS level, (
> at least i unable to found a way to do that ), but apart from MS
> blues.....
>
> I did found that way only by changing a single line inside the ajp12
> handling routine , and letting remoteuser be obtained by tomcat itself,
> i think this works for all servers and for basic&digest authentication ,
>
>
> Can be useful to know of to somebody, if anybody found it useful i can
> add an option to server.xml to control that ( at contextmanager level
> i.e) , and i'm thinking only of TC 3.3 and TC 4.0 at that time.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Saludos ,
> Ignacio J. Ortega
>
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Nicolaus Bauman
Software Engineer
Simplexity Systems
