Hi there. I also am interested in exchanging the authenticator. But I could not find the properties file mentioned below in Tomcat 4.1.8. However I found the NonLoginAuthenticator (exactly what I was trying to do), and a properties file in org.apache.catalina.startup.
Do I understand correctly that this authenticator is activated just by specifying <auth-method>NONE</auth-method> in web.xml? Hiran ----------------------------------------- Hiran Chaudhuri SAG Systemhaus GmbH Elsenheimerstra?e 11 80687 Munchen Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-89-54742-134 Fax +49-6151-9234-5134 > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 2:52 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator > > > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Tim McLaughlin wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:00:17 -0700 > > From: Tim McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Custom org.apache.catalina.authenticator > > > > Hello, > > > > The Question: > > How do I specify a class other than > > org.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator to handle Basic > > authentication? > > > > There is a properties file in the org.apache.catalina.authenticator > package that defines the mapping of authentication method to > classname. > You would need to customize this file in > $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina.jar. > > Or, an easier approach would be to copy your customized > version of this > file into the > $CATALINA_HOME/server/classes/org/apache/catalina/authenticato > r directory > (which you'd have to create). This works because the Catalina class > loaders load from the "classes" directory before they load > from JAR files > in the corresponding "lib" directory -- this works both for the server > class loader (server/classes before server/lib), the common > class loader > (common/classes before common/lib) and the webapp class loader > (WEB-INF/classes before WEB-INF/lib). > > Craig > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>