With the lack of reply's I guess that Active directory connections are not used by anyone here.
I'm making it a bit more simple then and in step one only protect this service with a simple login / password protection. Setup: One separate engine only accepting HTTPS connections that needs to be protected. I have set up a ""org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm" realm with a xml file with one user, password and group in my server.xml section for the engine I'm protecting. So far so good. Then I got everything to work when editing <webapp>/WEB-INF/web.xml and added the following: <security-constraint> <display-name>Security check</display-name> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>Protected Area</web-resource-name> <!-- Define the context-relative URL(s) to be protected --> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> <!-- If you list http methods, only those methods are protected --> <http-method>DELETE</http-method> <http-method>GET</http-method> <http-method>POST</http-method> <http-method>PUT</http-method> </web-resource-collection> <auth-constraint> <!-- Anyone with one of the listed roles may access this area --> <role-name>testgroup</role-name> </auth-constraint> </security-constraint> <login-config> <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method> <realm-name>Security Check</realm-name> </login-config> That worked great, the login box appears and are not accessible without the correct logon. BUT the problem is that this webapp is delivered by a 3:rd party without the above settings in there web.xml file. We get regular updates and I would like to NOT be forced to remember to add the above section every time we get a new release of the webapp. So how can I make this Engine/webapp in the server.xml file be protected by one simple login WITHOUT the need to modify the webapp itself every time we get a new version of the webapp? ~Johannes -----Originalmeddelande----- From: Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:55:13 +0100 To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Tomcat authenticate with Active directory > I have a webapp that I want to protect the best way possible. > Our environment has previously been Windows and still are but our new system > is running tomcat 5.0. > > Now I would like to protect one part of our setup with login from our Windows > 2003 Active directory domain server when there is a lot of people that is > going to access this webapp. But still it need to be secure! > Found some some information here: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/realm-howto.html > Section JNDIRealm > > But without any previous experience with LDAP connections I have no clue how > to get this to work. > I'w tried searching for a good tutorial/guide how to make this happen step by > step but without success. > > Have this been done by anyone here that could give me some help setting this > up. Or can direct me to a good step by step tutorial to get this up and > running? > > ~Johannes > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]