Hi, we intend to use the Tomcat server to serve JSP and servlets for our intranet. Actually it fails because Tomcat isn't able to authenticate our users with their linux md5crypted-password. I think md5crypted-passwords are a type of standard on linux systems and would really appreciate the ability of Tomcat to handle these.
Digging around I found a mail to the Jakarta commons project where an author offered his implementation of the md5crypt algorithm: http://www.mail-archive.com/jakarta-commons@jakarta.apache.org/msg01390.html I think it would fit perfectly as an extension for the Tomcat Realms. If you agree but no one is wiling to adopt the task, I will. I suggest the possibility to add an 'crypt="TYPE"' directive to the realm configuration. This leaves open the chance to implement other crypt-routines (as the unix-crypt requested prior on this list). Best regards Niklas
