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ConfigureApacheTomcatwithOpenDJasanIdentityStoreApacheTomcatcandocontainermanagedsecurity,whereTomcatconnectstoanidentitydatastoreforuserauthentication.
TheApacheTomcatRealmexplainsgenerallyhowtosetthisup.
ConfigurationHOW-TOThisarticledemonstrateshowtosetupTomcat7touseOpenDJwithaJNDIRealmforavirtualhost.
ThebasicsetupsidestepssomeofthecomplexitybyusingasingleOpenDJserver,thoughtheJNDIRealmletsyousetbothconnectionURLsandalternateURLstoallowforfailover.
ThebasicsetupalsodoesnotcoversecuringtheconnectionfromTomcattoOpenDJ.
IfyoudeployOpenDJasanidentitystoreforTomcatinproduction,thenTomcatshouldconnecttoOpenDJusingStartTLSorLDAPStoavoidsendingpasswordsincleartextwhenusersauthenticate.
UsersandRolesinOpenDJInordertohavesometestusers,youcanimportintoadc=example,dc=comsuffixinOpenDJatinstallationtime.
(SeetheExample.
ldifOpenDJInstallationforhelpinstallingthelatestnightlybuildofOpenDJ.
)Hereisasearchonafamousexampleuser:Guide$/path/to/OpenDJ/bin/ldapsearch-p1389-bdc=example,dc=comuid=bjensencnuidmaildn:uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=comuid:bjensencn:BarbaraJensencn:BabsJensenmail:bjensen@example.
comRolesinApacheTomcatmaptogroupsinOpenDJ.
Therefore,defineacoupleofgroupstousewithTomcat.
dn:cn=tomcat,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=comobjectClass:groupOfUniqueNamesobjectClass:topdescription:Anentryforthe"tomcat"rolecn:tomcatuniqueMember:uid=kvaughan,ou=People,dc=example,dc=comuniqueMember:uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=comdn:cn=role1,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=comobjectClass:groupOfUniqueNamesobjectClass:topdescription:Anentryforthe"role1"Tomcatrolecn:role1uniqueMember:uid=kvaughan,ou=People,dc=example,dc=comTomcatConfigurationFortheTomcatrealmconfiguration,thefollowingdefinitionconnectstoOpenDJonthelocalhost,port1389(thedefaultLDAPportwhennotrunningasrootonLinuxorUNIX),andletsusersloginby(forexample,BabsJensenlogsinas).
uidbjensenGroupmembershipcomeseitherfromOpenDJgrouplookup,orfromtheattributeontheuserentry.
isMemberOfAddthedefinitionto,forexampleinsidetheelement.
/path/to/tomcat/conf/server.
xmlMakesureOpenDJisrunning,andthenrestartTomcattobesurethechangestakeeffect.
SmokeTestTrytheexampleapplicationwithform-basedloginshippedwithTomcat,http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/security/protected/Loginaswithpassword.
bjensenhifalutinAtthispointyoucanaddyourownprotectedapplications.