Authentication in windows with java

[Scott Battaglia]

I think you've seen this, but in case you haven't, does any of this help?
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/jgss/tutorials/Troubleshooting.html

-Scott

On 1/3/07, Geoffrey Ritchey <ritcheyg at wbu.edu> wrote:
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> I'm experimenting with JAAS authentication on Tomcat using Kerberos in
> Windows.  For most people it works!  For one person so far I get the
> following exception:
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> javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: KDC has no support for
> encryption type (14)
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> She has a brand new Windows machine.
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> I've seen something about setting a registry value but I'm not sure what
> is meant; on the tomcat server or on the individual's machine.  Setting a
> registry value doesn't seem like a great solution to me.
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> The heart of the code that runs as a tomcat service is this:
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>             LoginContext lc = *null*;
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>             *try* {
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>                   String home = System.*getenv*("CATALINA_HOME");
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>                   System.*setProperty*("java.security.auth.login.config",
> home + "/conf/jaas.conf");
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>                   System.*setProperty*("java.security.krb5.conf", home +
> "/conf/krb5.conf");
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>                 lc = *new* LoginContext("JaasSample", *this*);
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>                 lc.login();
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>             } *catch* (LoginException le) {
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> Does anyone have any knowledge of this?  I should probably set the system
> properties once at startup but I don't think that has anything to do with
> the problem at hand.
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