Hi Chris, I met you at a PERL conference years and years ago along with a bunch of other people you met. Anyways. Exactly what I am trying to do is allow folks to use their web browser (I would like to stick with tomcat 7.0.27 on aix 6.1) from their windows workstation and authenticate against the windows domain. I am hoping this can be accomplished without creating unix accounts. The permissions for it, page access or run the tool would reside in the tomcat configuration side, but all authentification would be from the windows side. If you can tell me how to do that I would be pretty happy. I cannot find documentation on how to do it and I am not a java person nor have I touched this stuff in a very long time. I was doing strictly unix admin work until a few months ago. That doesn't mean I won't hack and experiment, I have a sandbox here at work that I can do anything on to get this configuration figured out. Thanks in advance and happy to be working with you!
Jen -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:07 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: very basic question about apache and tomcat -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jen, On 9/19/12 5:52 PM, Mead, Jen L wrote: > That was very insightful. All the documentation that I am looking > into specifies apache as the application. Maybe, just maybe the > server.xml file will contain what I need to move forward. The lack of > documentation for what I am trying to do is frustrating. I am not > even sure I can do it without loading apache with or instead of > tomcat. Thanks for the info. Can you describe what you need to accomplish without specifically referring to Apache httpd or Apache Tomcat? Something like: "We have a Java web application that needs to authentication against Microsoft AD server, and there are no other moving parts required unless we need them to support this configuration." The reason that I ask is that Tomcat (with some special support libraries and configuration) can authenticate directly against Microsoft AD and Apache httpd isn't necessary at all. If you /require/ Apache httpd to perform the authentication, then we can tell you how to do that, too. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBaUA4ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBlrACcChzrMo5ZRki1yGdFhxY8H+tZ 6KMAn2AEND/wIIyFOoJDd1ZmfOwjHwsT =javS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
