Am 6. Juli 2020 14:14:59 MESZ schrieb Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: >On 04/07/2020 19:54, Thomas Meyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> a while ago I did write a little POC of how to add a custom >> authenticator scheme to tomcat. >> >> this is what I did come up with: >> https://github.com/thomasmey/BearerTokenAuthenticator >> >> It's rather complicated solution! >> Is there an more easy solution to add a custom authenticator scheme >to a Context/context.xml? > >How about: > >1. Extract the Authenticators.properties file from catalina.jar > (or from source) >2. Edit it to reference the custom Authenticator >3. Place it at $CATALINA_BASE/lib/org/apache/catalina/startup >4. Add the JAR with the custom authenticator to $CATALINA_BASE/lib > >which would make it generally available to use in WEB-INF/web.xml
Okay, understand! Nice trick. > >Or > >1. Add it directly to context.xml as: > ><Context> > <Valve >className="de.m3y3r.catalina.authenticator.BearerTokenAuthenticator" /> ></Context> Ah, okay an Authenticator is also a Valve, I didn't think about this! I will play around with this setup a bit. thanks for the hint! > >which you would need to do for each app that wants to use it (or set it >in the global web.xml for all apps). > >Mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
