D4Science Portal HTTPS x509 Certificate Authentication

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This is a custom Auto login hook that provides customised authentication for X509 certificate users. Set the dev environment

  1. Unzip the file [1] onto your "plugin-sdk/hooks" folder.
  2. Copy the AutoLoginCustom.java source to the src folder
  3. Add the following line to portal.properties file:

auto.login.hooks=com.liferay.portal.security.auth.BasicAuthHeaderAutoLogin,com.liferay.portal.security.auth.AutoLoginCustom

  1. Run "ant war" - The war file will be created in the plugins-sdk/dist folder.
  2. Copy the war file to Liferay_home/deploy
  3. Restart liferay instance

Auto Login hook is now ready to be tested and used.