Re: Newbie question re certificates

2014-12-02 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andrew, On 12/2/14 8:09 AM, Andrew Gronosky wrote: > > On 2014-12-02 04:55, John Dunn wrote: >> I have been asked the following question during an audit, which >> I personally don't understand. >> >> "When using Mutually authenticated TLS is auth

Re: Newbie question re certificates

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Gronosky
On 2014-12-02 08:09, Andrew Gronosky wrote: As I discovered yesterday, if you have a client cert that is signed by a CA that Tomcat trusts, but whose name (synonymously, CN) does not map to a recognized user, then you will connect to Tomcat but get an HTTP 401 error as your response. If the

Re: Newbie question re certificates

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Gronosky
On 2014-12-02 04:55, John Dunn wrote: I have been asked the following question during an audit, which I personally don't understand. "When using Mutually authenticated TLS is authorisation based on the certificate name(and not just on the root CA)?" Can anyone clarify what exactly this mean

Newbie question re certificates

2014-12-02 Thread John Dunn
I have been asked the following question during an audit, which I personally don't understand. "When using Mutually authenticated TLS is authorisation based on the certificate name(and not just on the root CA)?" Can anyone clarify what exactly this means and whether Tomcat supports this? Chee