Re: Using Single Sign on to access another webapp.

2005-07-12 Thread Ben Bookey
To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Using Single Sign on to access another webapp. Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:48:44 -0400 One way to do SSO is to utilize a cookie (lets call it SSO, and to be really secure - it should only be transfered over https). The existence of a cookie says the person mi

Re: Using Single Sign on to access another webapp.

2005-07-08 Thread Ivan Rodriguez
Take a look at http://tp.its.yale.edu/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=CentralAuthenticationService Tim Funk escribió: One way to do SSO is to utilize a cookie (lets call it SSO, and to be really secure - it should only be transfered over https). The existence of a cookie says the person might be l

Re: Using Single Sign on to access another webapp.

2005-07-08 Thread Tim Funk
One way to do SSO is to utilize a cookie (lets call it SSO, and to be really secure - it should only be transfered over https). The existence of a cookie says the person might be logged in. The value of the cookie needs to be checked. The value of the cookie shold NOT be the user id. It can b

Re: Using Single Sign on to access another webapp.

2005-07-08 Thread Christoph Kutzinski
Check this for a way to implement this with Tomcat (you must use 5.5 ore higher, though): http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wholder/archive/2005/02/session_session.html Or this is a solution I found with an external authentication server: http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/java/single-sign-o

Using Single Sign on to access another webapp.

2005-07-08 Thread Ben Bookey
Dear List, We are using Tomcat 4.1.xx. We are NOT using the built in security framework which comes with TC. In the login.jsp page the user/password is validated by an external organisation wide process, which returns simply true or false. If the user is valid, the user is forwarded to the app