On 26/08/2016 06:54, Doug Gschwind wrote: > Hello, <snip/>
> In my research today on the topic, this appears to be much more difficult > than I would expect in Tomcat 8.5, so I can only conclude I am missing > something. Here are the two potential solutions I have found : > > 1) Provide our own implementation of the org.apache.catalina.Realm The split isn't completely clean but generally Realm's provide authorization, not authentication. Very roughly, Authenticators obtain the user name, password etc and Realms validate them against a credential store. You probably want to implement a custom Authenticator (extending AuthenticatorBase). Depending on what you are trying to do, you might need a custom Authenticator and a custom Realm. A more portable solution would be to implement a JASPIC module. HTH, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
