Hello Shaun, If you use Tomcat-4.1.3 or later, you can use JNDI to authenticate against Active Directory.
Here is an overview of the threads on this topic: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&w=2&r=1&s=Roles+in+JNDIRealms&q=b Here is probably the best answer to your question: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=102373831306359&w=2 Hope that helps. Jake Monday, July 22, 2002, 11:18:28 AM, you wrote: SK> Hey everybody SK> I've spent some time going back through old archived tomcat-user mailing SK> lists and I haven't been able to find anything that answers my question SK> yet.. maybe I just wasn't looking for the right thing, I'm not sure. SK> Anyway, here goes. SK> I have a web application consisting of JSPs and servlets, and I need to put SK> some security/login stuff in with it. I need to authenticate to a windows SK> nt domain that has a big list of users that are allowed to use my SK> application. However, I can't seem to figure out if I can configure Tomcat SK> to do the authentication for me, or if I have to write some java code (using SK> JAAS I guess) that will do the authentication. If it's the writing java SK> code case, can someone point me to some useful documentation? I've skimmed SK> through the JAAS docs and they don't seem all that helpful for what I'm SK> trying to do. SK> Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated! SK> ~ SK> Shaun Kenny SK> Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology SK> Acadia University -- Best regards, Jacob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
