"Mead, Jen L" <mead....@con-way.com> wrote:
>Yes, I did not find that useful. It is very vague to say the least. You are the one being vague. You are not being very forthcoming. That page provides detailed, step-by-step configuration instructions. As I said, the page assumes Tomcat is running on a Windows machine but that may be necessary for Windows authentication to work. I haven't tested it and performing that testing is at the end of a long to do list. There is nothing stopping you from testing this. >If I am missing something please let me know. I want to use Built-in >Tomcat support. You appear to have missed the section entitled "built-in Tomcat support" which is an exact match for what you are looking for. Mark > >Jen > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] >Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 9:20 AM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: RE: very basic question about apache and tomcat > >"Mead, Jen L" <mead....@con-way.com> wrote: > >>Hi Chris, >> >>I met you at a PERL conference years and years ago along with a bunch >>of other people you met. Anyways. Exactly what I am trying to do is >>allow folks to use their web browser (I would like to stick with >tomcat >>7.0.27 on aix 6.1) from their windows workstation and authenticate >>against the windows domain. I am hoping this can be accomplished >>without creating unix accounts. The permissions for it, page access >or >>run the tool would reside in the tomcat configuration side, but all >>authentification would be from the windows side. If you can tell me >>how to do that I would be pretty happy. I cannot find documentation >on >>how to do it > >Did you find this? > >http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-auth-howto.html > >I haven't tested this when Tomcat is on a non-Windows platform. It is >certainly possible for this to work although whether any other pieces >(such as samba) are required and what their configuration might be I >don't know. OTOH, it might just work. > >I'll add looking at this to my to do list but it is a long list... > >Mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
