RE: Websphere authenticating to a remote as/400 and Envoy

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Todd Bryant
> 
> We currently have Envoy running on the 400 using WAS 5.1. We are
thinking
> about moving Websphere off the 400 and onto another box. Also, it
would be
> nice to be able to run a test environment in WSAD and have it work.
The
> problem I am having is that I cannot figure out a way to have
websphere
> authenticate with a remote machine if you set up an application with
BASIC
> or FORM authentication. As far as I can tell it will only try and
> authenticate with the local system. From what I understand this should
be
> possible. Anyone have any suggestions?

Todd, as far as I know a web application server will only authenticate
against the box it is running on.  We've got two other PSC/400
installations doing just that: one is running Tomcat on a FreeBSD
machine, while ITT Aerospace is running WebSphere on one iSeries and the
applications on another.

Joe