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what is the meaning of Realm?

Rahul Ba
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Hi all,

Many times I come across the term Realm. What is the meaning of it. I need with good example. I searched on google too but not satishfied.

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Rahul
Ulf Dittmer
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Realms are how Tomcat implements authentication; see http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-howto.html to get started.

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greg stark
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:Realms are how Tomcat implements authentication; see http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-howto.html to get started.


Also, I think the term dates back to dawn of Kerberos, at least that is the first I can remember coming across it and I'm pretty old! Kerberos Realms

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