Can someone please create a tomcat realm for authentication to crowd. It would make sense for this to work with tomcat 6. The current way of creating SSO between crowd and custom applications is not satisfactory for clients who purchase crowd and already have custom applications. I would have to alter at least 30 projects to achieve SSO with crowd. Not to mention the countless jars that are needed to achieve that solution. I would be very suprised if there were not some kind of dependency issues.
I am open to other suggestions but the realm seems the most logical way of offering a solution to parties with existing applications.
[CWD-1331] Authentication Realm for Tomcat
David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Hi David,
If you haven't managed to build your own Crowd-Tomcat Realm authenticator, you could take advantage of Tomcat's JAASRealm and the Crowd JAAS login module. That might save you the work.
Cheers,
Dave.
David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Hi David,
If you haven't managed to build your own Crowd-Tomcat Realm authenticator, you could take advantage of Tomcat's JAASRealm and the Crowd JAAS login module . That might save you the work.
Cheers,
Dave. Thanks David,
I will take a look at points below and see if we have the skill to carry
forward.
Thanks for your prompt reply
Cheers
Dave
David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Hi David,
Yes, we do understand the issue, and realm support does seem like a very sensible feature. Unfortunately, I can't give you a timeframe for implementing it at the moment; we're finishing off 1.6.1 and about to undertake some very heavy lifting for 2.0. This is going to take up all of the team's time for the next couple of months.
If you have the desire to implement this yourself, we'd be more than happy to help out or to point you in the right direction. A good place to start would be here, and you can browse the source of other people's connectors here.
David O'Flynn [Atlassian]
added a comment - Hi David,
Yes, we do understand the issue, and realm support does seem like a very sensible feature. Unfortunately, I can't give you a timeframe for implementing it at the moment; we're finishing off 1.6.1 and about to undertake some very heavy lifting for 2.0. This is going to take up all of the team's time for the next couple of months.
If you have the desire to implement this yourself, we'd be more than happy to help out or to point you in the right direction. A good place to start would be here , and you can browse the source of other people's connectors here .
Unfortunately we will not be looking to implement this feature in the near future.
In the short-medium term, the Crowd team will be focused on improving user management integration between Atlassian applications.
As David O'Flynn mentioned, it's possible to use the Crowd REST API to write a realm implementation that backs off Crowd.