Bug 57706

Summary:	Documentation for tomcatAuthentication too vague: confusion over authentication and authorization
Product:	Tomcat 6	Reporter:	Graham Leggett <minfrin>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	6.0.43
Target Milestone:	default
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X 10.1

Description Graham Leggett 2015-03-14 17:29:55 UTC

At http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/ajp.html the documentation for tomcatAuthentication states as follows:

"If set to true, the authentication will be done in Tomcat. Otherwise, the authenticated principal will be propagated from the native webserver and used for authorization in Tomcat. The default value is true."

This documentation is incorrect, it should instead read as follows:

"If set to true, authentication and authorization will be done in Tomcat. Otherwise, the authenticated principal will be propagated from the native webserver and used for authentication in Tomcat, while all role memberships will be considered false. The default value is true."

Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2015-03-18 21:39:27 UTC

With the implementation of tomcatAuthorization this only applied to 6.0.x now.

Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2015-03-18 21:46:08 UTC

Fixed in 6.0.x for 6.0.44 onwards.