Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 95199 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 09:02:31 -0000 Received: from exchange.sun.com (192.18.33.10) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 09:02:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 24080 invoked by uid 97); 1 Feb 2003 09:04:09 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-tomcat-user@nagoya.betaversion.org Received: (qmail 24073 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 09:04:09 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by nagoya.betaversion.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 09:04:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 93800 invoked by uid 500); 1 Feb 2003 09:02:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tomcat Users List" Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 93789 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 09:02:10 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 09:02:10 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18etVl-0004Lo-00 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 10:00:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18etVj-0004Lf-00 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 10:00:27 +0100 From: "Bill Barker" Subject: Re: form-based auth Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:10:21 -0800 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <20030131155727.V93881@icarus.apache.org> <20030131234930.R86672@icarus.apache.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: news X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote in message news:20030131234930.R86672@icarus.apache.org... > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bill Barker wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:54:38 -0800 > > From: Bill Barker > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List > > To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org > > Subject: Re: form-based auth > > > > > > "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote in message > > news:20030131155727.V93881@icarus.apache.org... > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Madere, Colin wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:06:27 -0600 > > > > From: "Madere, Colin" > > > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List > > > > To: "'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'" > > > > Subject: form-based auth > > > > > > > > Anyone out there have multiple contexts (or simply multiple webapps) > > > > authenticating with the same form (login form in a single location)? > > > > > > The form login page has to be within the webapp, so this is not possible. > > > > Well, not really true. It's an all-or-nothing thing. If you use > > Single-Sign-On, then your login applies to all webapps once you log on to > > one of them. But, without writing your own custom Valve, you can't pick and > > choose which contexts get to see the login. > > > > It is true that the user's authentication applies to all webapps when you > use SingleSignonValve, but I understood the initial question to be "can I > share a single copy of the form login page across multiple webapps". And > that is something you cannot do -- each app needs their own login page > (since the path for the element is context-relative, not > server-relative). > Ok, you've got a point. Still, I routinely get around it (at least on *nix systems), by using sym-links and Entities. > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org