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Shared Security Contexts?

 
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Is there any way to configure JBoss/Tomcat or a deployment such that:

a) 2 wars within the same ear share the same security context, and
b) wars within different ears do not share the same security context?

I'm familiar with the <valve> element in server.xml in Tomcat referencing the SingleSignOn class. This provides for (a) but not (b).

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I'm familiar with the <valve> element in server.xml in Tomcat referencing the SingleSignOn class. This provides for (a) but not (b).


what is single SingleSignOn class ? what stuff ur talking about ?
 
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I'm sorry but I don't know enough to really provide details. The only thing I know (because I was told) is when the SingleSignOn class is "turned on" in Tomcat's configuration, the following behavior occurs:

1. User accesses web application A.
2. Web application A requires user to authenticate.
3. User accesses web application B.
4. Web application B trusts credentials entered in #2 (and therefore does not re-authenticate user).

The problem I am facing is that I want the above to be true for a set but not all of web applications deployed in JBoss/Tomcat.

If you want to dig deeper, I suggest going to the Tomcat documentation. The server.xml file that contains the reference to the SingleSignOn class is found in the \deploy\jbossweb-tomcat50.sar folder. The configuration looks like the following and is by default, commented out.

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" debug="0"/>

Hope this helps...
 
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Moved to the Tomcat forum.
 
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