Thanks. To recap, I configure AJP13 with tomcatAuthentication equals to
false but I still need the login-config and security-constraints in the
web.xml...

Where can I let tomcat know to which roles a user belongs to?

Thanks
Oliver




                                                                       
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On 20/10/2010 16:46, Oliver Wulff wrote:
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> Hi there
>
> Different Realms are already provided by Tomcat to configure the
> authentication. This allows the application developer to use the standard
> Servlet API to retrieve security related informations like username and
> whether the user belongs to a role or not. Further, you can configure
> access restrictions based on roles in web.xml.
>
> When the whole authentication happens within a reverse proxy (mod_proxy
of
> apache server) how can I still benefit from container managed security in
> tomcat? The password is not available anymore so that I could configure
one
> of the Realms.
>
> Is there any out of the box solution in Tomcat?

For the AJP connector:

 tomcatAuthentication=false

 http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/ajp.html



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