[jcifs] re-authentication / password

Michael B Allen mba2000 at ioplex.com
Thu Aug 5 03:59:24 GMT 2004


karla.smith at vectorsgi.com said:
> Newbie question:
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> Is it possible to extract the password after authenticating a user using
> NTLM HTTP authentication ?

No.

> We will authenticate the user using the servlet filter.  Then we need to
> re-authenticate the user when going through web services.

Do the "web services" support NTLM authentication? If so you could modify
the Filter to just pass tokens to/from the web services.

Mike


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