Re: Custom Authentication in Tomcat 8.5.4 using JDK 1.8.0_92?

2016-08-28 Thread Doug Gschwind
Hi Mark, Very good, thank you for that direction. Both approaches you suggest seem appropriate, but I was unable to find any guide that describes how to provide/implement a JASPIC module, let alone that within Tomcat. I am hoping a custom Authenticator via extending AuthenticatorBase

Re: Custom Authentication in Tomcat 8.5.4 using JDK 1.8.0_92?

2016-08-26 Thread Mark Thomas
On 26/08/2016 06:54, Doug Gschwind wrote: > Hello, > In my research today on the topic, this appears to be much more difficult > than I would expect in Tomcat 8.5, so I can only conclude I am missing > something. Here are the two potential solutions I have found : > > 1) Provide our own

Custom Authentication in Tomcat 8.5.4 using JDK 1.8.0_92?

2016-08-26 Thread Doug Gschwind
Hello, I am attempting to migrate our web app from Resin 3.1 to Tomcat 8.5.4. Ultimately, the intent is to be able to run our web app within Tomcat 8.5 on MAC OS X (in dev mode) or on a CentOS 7 box for production. With Resin 3.1, you can use a subclass of the Resin AbstractAuthenticator class