But, I've a question.
Actually, when Tomcat does the authentication, it keeps the user in session.
Also, it tries to validate when ever user tries to access the protected
files.
If IIS does the authentication, how can we achieve this??
Thanks in advance,
-Ratnakar
-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Kamau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Determining NT login name
Indeed I do think Randy's answer is most probably the
best solution to the problem stated below.
--- Randy Layman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I believe what you need to do is to run Tomcat
> behind IIS. Then, in
> IIS set the password to challenge/response and set
> the default domain to
> that of your users. Now, when users come to your
> web site using IE (not
> Netscape), IE will perform the login for the user
> without their
> intervention. From Tomcat you should now be able to
> grab their account with
> getRemoteUser.
>
> The real key to this is getting IIS set up so that
> IE can/will
> automatically login the users in.
>
> Randy
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel A. Theobald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:01 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Determining NT login name
> >
> >
> > We are developing an intranet application to be
> deployed on a windows
> > network. One of the requirements is that the user
> should not be
> > required to login to the website, that their
> windows login should be
> > sufficient.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to determine the windows
> username of the remote
> > user in a servlet? I know there is some way to do
> it using ASP, but I
> > would rather do this all in java if possible.
> >
> >
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getRemoteUser
> always seems to
> > return null. I guess we will need to make some
> auto authentication or
> > something. Ideas?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > theo
> >
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