IDP authn when using ECP

[Cantor, Scott]

On 5/3/12 5:14 PM, "Steven Carmody" <Steven_Carmody at brown.edu> wrote:
>
>I'm pretty sure I can configure Basic Auth support in tomcat, by adding
>a <security-constraint> with the appropriate path to the web.xml file
>associated with the IDP.

I do it with Jetty, yes.

>But, it appears that the only relevant LoginHandler in the IDP wants to
>receive the userid in REMOTE_USER... and I can't see how to tell Tomcat
>to set that value. I doubt there is any way to do that.

You don't use a LoginHandler at all with it, the ECP handler just reads
REMOTE_USER directly or fails. The constraint will result in that being
set.

-- Scott