Prerequisities
Note: The HTTP header used for the username is named 'VM_USER' in this sample setup.
Configuration To use Kerberos as the authentication module on Apache in front of the Valuemation servlet running on Tomcat, it necessary to:
Now if you restart Apache and restart Tomcat, SSO should work.
Note: Kerberos performance optimization:
The Kerberos authentication adds some communication overhead. Protecting the login url only is a kind of performance enhancement as the consequent request does not need to be validated by Kerberos repeatedly when working with Valuemation. | |||||||||||||||