[JS2-55] JAAS Authentication on Tomcat 5

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-a1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-M1
• Component/s: Security
• Environment: Tomcat 5.0.24, J2SE 1.4.2_03
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ate Douma
• Created: 25/May/04 22:26
• Updated: 14/Oct/04 19:54
• Resolved: 14/Oct/04 19:54

Description

As discussed on the Jetspeed developers mailinglist (thread starts with: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=[e-mail]&msgNo=14605) the new behaviour of Tomcat 5 to set the ContextClassLoader in the JAASRealm to the server classloader prevents defining LoginModules within the context of an web app.

As a quick solution to this problem the Tomcat 5 JAASRealm is going to be patched to revert back to the old Tomcat 4 handling.

The preferred solution is that the Tomcat Team would do this themselves or provide it as an option. Someone should start discussing this with them....

I'll provide a patch implementing the quick fix which will depend on the user property catalina.version.major=5 to be enforced upon the catalina server: when this condition is true a patched version of the Tomcat 5.0.24 JAASRealm.java revision 1.6 will be compiled into the $Tomcat/server/classes directory.