I tried to use form based authentication with JNDIRealm. What I want to
accomplish is to have the two applications with the same realm be
authenticated once. It seems the tomcat ignored the realm. I have to
login twice. For example: when I login to http://localhost:8080/app1
successfully, then change the url to http://localhost:8080/app2, the
login page will be prompted again. I hope I describe my issue clearly.
Here is the snippet of web.xml for the app1 and app2
..
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name>FACRES</realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/error.html</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<role-name>CN=FacultyStaff,OU=Groups,OU=EMP,DC=AC</role-name>
</security-role>
..
Here is the login.jsp
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Login Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="j_security_check" >
<input type="text" name="j_username">
<br>
<input type="password" name="j_password">
<br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Your help will be appreciated very much as always.
Jill
