Hey, I want to change the way that tomcat authenticates to the DB of our application, from SQL authentication to Windows authentication. We use Tomcat 6.0.29 , and the user and password to connect to the DB is specified in clear text in the xml configuration file under the folder conf/catalina/localhost. My goal is to remove the user and password from the xml file, and letting the tomcat windows service run with a domain user that has permissions to the DB.
when I searched for a solutions for what i'm trying to do, i got to this page- http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Windows#Q4 Which suggest these methods: -Waffle/JNA -Tomcat SPNEGO -SPNEGO SF -Jespa (commercial) -Tomcat IIS Connector -Samba JCIFs (obsolete, no NTLMv2) Are one of these methods suit for what I'm trying to do? When reading about Tomcat SPNEGO, it says that users working on a windows client OS and IE or Firefox, can be silently authenticated (SSO) to a Tomcat running on a windows server via NTLM or kerberos. It doesn't seem to be what I aim for, since tomcat users are not interest me, only the tomcat windows service and how it connects to the DB Your help would be appreciated :] Thanks Hila
