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Roger,

On 12/22/16 10:11 PM, Roger Marquis wrote:
>>> I have a change-password form that must validate the current 
>>> user's password and am unable to find a Tomcat (8.0) method to
>>> use for this. It's not in FormAuthenticator or any other class
>>> I could find.  Pointers would be appreciated.
>> 
>> It's complicated, but you can do it. What exact version of Tomcat
>> 8 are you running?
> 
> 8.0.39 now but the plan is to update to 8.5 once this is
> worked-out.

On 12/29/16 10:07 AM, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Do you know how much I should expect to pay someone to write this 
> method?  Is it anything you'd be interested in writing and is it 
> something that shouldn't be open sourced?

The code has already been written.

http://people.apache.org/~schultz/ApacheCon%20NA%202016/Seamless%20Upgra
des%20for%20Credential%20Security%20in%20Apache%20Tomcat.pdf

Read the whole thing, but what you are really interested in starts on
slide #29.

I think that most useful things ought to be open-sourced. Feel free to
make a donation to the ASF if you'd like.

Hope that helps,
- -chris
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