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Waffle gives different user names between Tomcat instances

I'm using Waffle in a Spring application to take advantage of Windows authentication. When I run the application from Gradle, everything works great. I get a result such as domain\user. When I compile down to a war and deploy to a standalone tomcat server, I get the result domain\pc name.

I'm really only using the line

String username = WindowsAccountImpl.getCurrentUsername();

Any ideas as to why this is giving different results?

EDIT: I had just posted the question with a SO syntax error. Apologies. Also, I should mention that both of these Tomcat instances are on the same machine. (Windows 7, Tomcat 8, Java 8)

Solution

  • Thanks, Mark. It certainly is and as soon as I read your comment I realized it's running as a local user. No permissions on the domain. Major palm-to-forehead moment.

    Updated to run as user with appropriate permissions on the domain and it fixed everything right up.

    Thanks again!