Re: Allowing Users to change their passwords

I use the Commons Codec library (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/). It's really simple to do what you want, and there are examples on the site. Digby Khawaja Shams wrote: Hello, We are using the jdbc realm for authentication against a MySQL instance. The passwords are stor

Re: auth-mode=DIGEST and MD5 digested passwords

Great- thanks a lot for that. I'll have a read up, but it's obviously going to be hard recoding the digested passwords when i don't know the original. Mark Thomas wrote: digby wrote: Is there anything to be aware of when (confusingly) you're doing DIGEST authentication

auth-mode=DIGEST and MD5 digested passwords

of web.xml combinations but nothing worked until I put it back to BASIC. My app worked in development when I was using tomcat-users.xml to authenticate (so no MD5 digest) - that's what makes me wonder if it's the DIGEST/digest. Thank

Re: My first Aproach

t support them and they wil definitely be more than you need for a while. Stick to JSPs and servlets an you'll be fine (although you might want to move onto Struts, Hibernate and Spring soon). Digby PS - please no IDE flames - Netbeans is really easy for beginners. Claudio Veas wrot