You are correct sir!
I had not commented that out.
as soon as i did everything worked.
In the past though I never commented it out either and it was working
so i did not think about that as being the problem
thanks again
chris
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> Chris Fox wrote:
>
> > I am uable to get a successfull login using basic authentication for
> > jdbc realm.
> > this was working for me in the tomcat 3.2 beta 6 for me but not in the
> > final release.
> >
> > the output log for the ContextManager says the authentication is okay
> > but
> > the browser shows authorization failed
> >
> > the only way to get it to work is to add the user to the
> > tomcat-users.xml file
> > and then it works fine (even if the password int the tomcat-users.xml
> > file is bogus)
> >
> > this is an unaccepatble solution as I want to add authentication for
> > many users
> > and not have to restart tomcat every time
> >
> > I am seeing this problem on two different boxes
> > one running linux and one running solaris
> >
> > I am stuck as how to fix this problem.
> >
> > has anyone seen this or got it working?
> >
>
> DId you comment out (or remove) the entry for the SimpleRealm interceptor when
> you uncommented the entry for the JDBCRealm? I ask this because SimpleRealm is
> the only code in all of Tomcat that cares about the tomcat-users.xml file.
>
> >
> > Chris
>
> Craig McClanahan
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