Authentication with Tomcat SSO
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Authentication with Tomcat SSO

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Article ID: 112096

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Products

CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder) CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder) CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction



We're running a Web Agent to protect Tomcat application. We'd like to know how to map some LDAP
custom roles with the web app custom roles in order to authenticate ?

Environment

Release: MSPJBO99000-12.52-Single Sign-On-Agent for JBoss-for MSP
Component:

Resolution

At first glance, you can do it by setting responses to your
authentication and authorization. So the Web Agent sends to the Tomcat
server some headers with the needed values.

Another way is to use the GD module to protect Tomcat. This modules
integrates the Tomcat security with CA Single Sign On :

Integration for CA Single Sign-On with Tomcat

https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/recommended-reading/technical-document-index/ca-global-delivery-packaged-work-product-module-index.html?id=%7B3B2E2905-11AF-4479-B309-63F113CA5D57%7D?id=%7B3B2E2905-11AF-4479-B309-63F113CA5D57%7D