Ron McNulty wrote:
Hi All
We are thinking of bringing some of our apps off proprietary J2EE
servers to Tomcat. We would be deploying on Tomcat 6 (latest), JVM 1.6
and Linux on a VM (not sure of versions). One of the requirements is to
authenticate using RSA Cleartrust.
From my reading, Tomcat does not support this. The recommended
solution is
to front Tomcat with Apache, and let Apache do the Cleartrust integration.
The links I have found are a bit ancient - are my assumptions still
correct? Also, our system architects seem to think this setup is
insufficiently secure - comments?
Assuming the Apache Cleartrust authentication is secure..
If Apache authenticates a request, and if the Apache/Tomcat connector is mod_jk, then the
authenticated user-id is propagated from Apache to Tomcat (*).
(Additionals info could be propagated via additional HTTP headers, or "request
attributes").
If the link between Apache and Tomcat is secure (like for example both run on the same
machine and the connection is purely internal), then there is no reason why this would be
less secure.
(*) whether Tomcat actually uses it, is determined by the "tomcatAuthentication" attribute
of the AJP <Connector>.
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