https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59750

--- Comment #7 from Michael Osipov <1983-01...@gmx.net> ---
(In reply to Christopher Schultz from comment #6)
> (In reply to Michael Osipov from comment #5)
> > GSSName or X509Certificate and like. I always prefer passing Object and the
> > implementation decides about the cast.
> 
> Seems reasonable.
> 
> Tomcat only supports authentication for string usernames or X509
> certificates (where the "username" is extracted as a String value from the
> certificate via a X509UsernameRetriever). Do you still feel there is a need
> for the user-identifier to be a generic Object?

I would always retain as much information as possible. Regaining it is
impossible afterwards.

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