Hi,

I couldn't gather any information on the WSS4J site, so I was wondering if someone could explain to me how the authentication is done. The way I understand it is:

1.  Client requests a webservice
2.  Server asks for authentication
3. Client grabs the password using a CallbackHandler and sets it on the callback 4. Server receives the usertoken, grabs the password it expects, and sets it on a seperate callback
5.  Something somewhere compares the passwords on these two callbacks?

A problem I am having is that the server authenticates against the Linux system's user's password, so I use getpwnam() to get the crypted password, and set it on the callback on the server side. How do I crypt it the same way on the client side? Don't I need the crypted password from the server side as the salt?

Thanks,

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Don Tam
Manager, Software Development
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