Right, stupid comment.... Will see if we can do with LDAP or maybe just putting digested passwords would be ok. Thanks for your help Jerome
--- Jacob Rhoden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerome Benezech wrote: > >> As far as I am aware you cannot resolve this > problem > >> except by switching > >> to LDAP for your authentication. (Although I > would > >> be happy to be > >> corrected!) > >> > > > > In this case, which user would be authenticated in > > LDAP ? If th user connecting to LDAP is 'tomcat', > the > > issue remains no ? > > > Not quite. You reconfigure tomcat to use LDAP to > lookup passwords, > instead of reading a text file. LDAP is a server > that listens on a port > on a server. So the passwords are no longer stored > and owned by the > tomcat user, but by the LDAP server, which can have > its own file > permissions and so on. > > Make sense? Lookup "Tomcat LDAP" in google. (: > > _______________________________ > Jacob Rhoden - http://uptecs.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: > users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jerome Benezech [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]