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Douglas Jose commented on JCR-2773:
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I'm going to do implement the first three enhancements suggested in the list.
Thanks for the hints.
Regarding the UserManager interface, I believe it cannot be used as one of the
limitations of the digest authentication is that it must be aware of the user's
password (or the concatenation of user, realm and password, as currently
implemented). As far as I know, the existing user management mechanism doesn't
store the user's clear text password (or any data from which such password
could be derived).
The simultaneous support to basic and digest authentication, as far as I know,
cannot be implemented. The protocol says that the server informs the client
which method is being used (via header parameters); they don't negotiate on
which on to use. However, I'm not an expert in such subject, so please let me
know if I'm wrong; the conclusions I'm taking here are based on the Tomcat code
I used as a reference to understand the protocol.
> HTTP digest authentication support
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>
> Key: JCR-2773
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2773
> Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: jackrabbit-core, jackrabbit-jcr-server,
> jackrabbit-webapp, security
> Reporter: Douglas Jose
> Attachments: http-digest.patch
>
>
> I have extended Jackrabbit to allow HTTP digest authentication through
> WebDAV, as Windows 7 can't connect to a WebDAV repository using basic
> authentication.
> The implementation is based on Tomcat's source code (I have used it as a
> reference to implement the same authentication handling in Jackrabbit). I
> hope that's not a problem.
> In order to enable the digest authentication, you need to:
> - Change the WebDAV servlet from
> 'org.apache.jackrabbit.j2ee.SimpleWebdavServlet' to
> 'org.apache.jackrabbit.j2ee.DigestWebdavServlet' in the web.xml file;
> - Change the LoginModule to
> 'org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.simple.DigestLoginModule' in the
> repository.xml file
> - Add the parameter 'passwordsFile' to the DigestLoginModule with the path of
> the passwords file.
> - Add to the passwords file created above the user id and the password
> digest. The utility DigestPasswordUtil in the jackrabbit-jcr-commons project
> can be used to generate the entry to be appended to the passwords file.
> java -cp target/jackrabbit-jcr-commons-2.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
> org.apache.jackrabbit.util.DigestPasswordUtil user realm password
> The DigestLoginModule configuration is optional, I believe the
> DigestWebdavServlet should work normally with the SimpleLoginModule which
> accepts any credentials.
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