Tomcat user authentication question.

dave.mcneil@bell.remove-t · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

Hello all,

We are running an OpenVMS 7.3-2 on an Alpha, with CSWS 2.0 and Tomcat
5.5.9. Some of our static html pages require user authentication which
Apache handles by validating their web logon with their VMS userid. An
example from httpd.conf:

<Directory "/apache$documents/dave">
AuthType Basic
AuthAuthoritative On
AuthName "ICSIS Bell-ATS Authentication"
AuthOpenVMSUser On
AuthOpenVMSAuthoritative On
require valid-user
</Directory>

I am trying to implement user authentication with Tomcat (Java
servlets) and I would like to use a similar method where Tomcat
validates their web logon against their VMS userid.

I'm hoping that HP made some OpenVMS specific tags for web.xml for
BASIC authentication, but I haven't found them.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

Dave

Rick Barry · *nix forums beginner Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 6

CSWS_JAVA (Tomcat) does not yet contain a built-in authentication mechanism
for OpenVMS. You could architect such a mechanism using JAAS and Tomcat's
JAAS Realm plug-in, but you'll need to do a bit of coding using the JNI
interface. We may add this to a future version of CSWS_JAVA. In the
meantime, you need to roll your own.

Rick Barry
OpenVMS System Software Group
Hewlett Packard Company

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