authbind? about ansible-tomcat

Hi,

there is no direct support for authbind. If I wanted to have authbind supported with the current role version, I'd go for overwriting the service template and add required configuration in your own template.

There are variables

• tomcat_server_upstart_template
• tomcat_server_sysvinit_template
• tomcat_server_systemd_template

configured in defaults/main.yml which point to templates in templates/service_SERVICETYPE.j2. You can copy the template for your environment (e.g. service_upstart.j2 for Ubuntu) to your projects template/ directory and add authbind support there for yourself.

Finaly you configure tomcat_server_upstart_template (again e.g. Ubuntu) to your copy of the template.

If you think supporting authbind directly with a variable is mandatory for this role, I'd ask for either PRs or some readings why/what/how authbind should be integrated.

Hope this helps!

[kuza55]

I'm no sysadmin, but I'm trying to setup a tomcat server on AWS for a side project and this is one of the things that came up when I tried to put my app on port 80; either I needed to setup authbind or setup iptables.

I don't know which is better (though authbind seems cleaner), but I have a strong preference for having something that doesn't require me to go and modify a whole pile of templates, so I'm just leaning towards using iptables in my playbook, rather than authbind.

[EDIT]: Though now that I just tried to add an iptables rule, I see it is in Ansible 2.0 which this is not compatible with yet

[livin]

I just reviewing this ansible role for my installation and thought that AUTHBIND would be useful. Still not sure what it will take for me to setup AUTHBIND myself.