Eric B. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been struggling with getting Tomcat to authenticate against my LDAP
> server for a couple of days now. I think I am finally starting to make some
> headway. I am able to sucessfully authenticate users if I use cleartext
> passwords in the directory. So now, the next thing is if I want to use MD5
> or SHA passwords.
>
> I am trying to authenticate against my list of Linux users that already
> exist in the directory. I do not want to create/manage a seperate list of
> users for my application.
>
> My problem is the way the JNDIRealm checks passwords doesn't seem to
> coreleate against the data that is stored in my directory.
>
> Currently, my userPassword is stored as: userPassword:
> {crypt}$1$AfBOPVqJ$GWlhLtmollCN9Namo9fmn0 As you can see this is not in Hex
> format, and is prefixed by {crypt}; both causing problems with JNDIRealm.
>
> My question therefore is the following: is there another class that I can
> use instead of JNDIRealm to authenticate against Linux passwords, or does
> anyone know if there is another way to configure Linux to store passwords in
> a manner that is consistent with Tomcat's JNDIRealm?
>
> Thanks for any insight that anyone can provide.
Have you tried not setting the userPassword attribute for the JNDIRealm?
Mark
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