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Hardy,

On 9/3/15 12:52 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to disable session-fixation-attack protection on
> our test server, and I've added the following valve to both my 
> application's context-fragment file, as well as the main
> context.xml file:
> 
> <Valve 
> className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator" 
> changeSessionIdOnAuthentication="false" alwaysUseSession="true"/>

Are you actually using HTTP Basic authentication? You may be configuring
the wrong authenticator. (I know nothing about Shibboleth).

> However, after several Tomcat restarts, I can still see the
> session cookie change after authentication.
> 
> I'm wondering if perhaps the problem is that this isn't Tomcat 
> authentication, but HTTPD authentication, via the Shibboleth
> module on Apache.

Perhaps, but Tomcat is always the arbiter of your session identifier.
Are you even using an authenticator in Tomcat? What is your
<auth-method> in web.xml say?

- -chris
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