JIRA + AJP + REMOTE_USER - how do I get rid of the login screen?

[Peter Schober]

* Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> [2015-03-19 13:58]:
> I am interpreting "header.remote_user=REMOTE_USER” to mean “take the
> remote username from request.getPrincipal()”, is this correct?

I think it's request.getRemoteUser() but yes.

Are you sure REMOTE_USER makes it through to Tomcat?
Did you follow the instructions here:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPJavaInstall
esp. setting attributePrefix="AJP_" in your shibboleth2.xml?
-peter