Changing the explorer to HTTP Basic Auth

[alr]

Hello

in order to support some sort of single sign on concept (our own, where the login is done at the "/" URL of an apache using mod_proxy, and after that every URL like /mail, /news, /cms is forwarded from the apache to another application which uses HTTP authentication - so authentication must only be done once) I would like to be login in the alfresco explorer (and any other JSF component) via HTTP Basic Auth. Is it possible to replace the internal used login process via web form? If so, is there any documentation I could take a look at?

Many thanks, I haven't found something valuable yet (or did look in a wrong way). A peek in the "Alfresco Developer Guide" didn't help either, so this might be really a problem? 😉


Regards, Alexander

[alr]

Hi,

For those interested in the issue:
one possible solution is to write an own servlet AuthenticationFilter and replace the org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationFilter class in the web.xml configuration file with the self written version.

Regards and have a nice weekend.


–Alexander