Thanks for the feedback!
Does tomcat 3.2.2 currently support JAAS?
-Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: realms and authentication
> Is this not more or less what JAAS does? There are a number of JAAS
> modules at http://free.tagish.net/ that implement among other things a
> JDBC Authentication provider.
>
> Michael Jennings wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Just for my own education, I decided to write my own
authentication-stuff
> > for tomcat 3.2.2
> >
> > To that end I wrote a Request Interceptor that takes 2 parameters
> > called "realmProviderClass" and "setupString".
> >
> > The "realmProviderClass" is the fully-qualified class name of a class
which
> > implements
> > the "RealmProvider" interface which looks like the following:
> >
> > public interface RealmProvider
> > {
> > public boolean authenticate(String username, String credentials) throws
> > Exception;
> > public String[] getUserRoles(String username) throws Exception;
> > public boolean initialize(String setupstring) throws Exception;
> > public void shutdown() throws Exception;
> > }
> >
> > The "setupString" parameter is passed to the initialize method of the
> > RealmProvider class
> > during context initialization.
> >
> > I thought that this might be an easy way to implement various different
> > authentication schemes
> > by delegating to a "RealmProvider". One could write a
"SimpleRealmProvider"
> > or a "JDBCRealmProvider"
> > etc.
> >
> > Does anyone think this might be a good idea for inclusion in tomcat?
> > -Mike
> >
> > ______________________
> > Mike Jennings
> > Southgate Software Ltd.
> > 250-382-6851 (ph)
> > 250-382-6800 (fax)
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Andy Armstrong, Tagish
