Zoran Smit

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Originally posted by Lijun An:
Dear all,
Is there a way in which a user from NT domain or active directory is verified in a servlet? I mean when a user logs in a J2EE web application by using his/her NT user account, how this user is authenticated against NT domain's user account database in JSP/servlet.
If you have the solution, would you please give me a sample code for that?
THanks in advance.
Lijun


I have not done this myself, but I would guess you could use JNDI of some sorts to connect to Active Directory.
A (slightly off topic) solution to your problem could be to let the webserver handle authentication. I don't know your configuration, but the following might work for Apache/Tomcat with mod_jk.
You can have Apache send out authentication headers, which it validates via Samba (use mod_auth_smb). I guess you should be able to retrieve the username in the servlet from the environment variables.
Hope this helps, if you need more detailed info, let me know.
Zoran
22 years ago