Most of this material is not specific to Orion but defined in the J2EE specs. Part of the process is that j_username, etc are effectively 'special values' recognized by the app server when doing authentication, so you really won't ever have access to these values.
But since it is defined in the spec there are very simple and standardized ways of getting some information. request.getRemoteUser() will tell you the username of the current login, and request.isUserInRole(somegroup) will tell you if the user is in a particullar role. I don't belive there is any standard way to find their password though (and you probably wouldn't want there to be if you were security minded). -----Original Message----- From: Christian, Joanne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:30 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Username and Password HI All, I'm new to J2EE and Orion. I have set up form-based authorization using DataSourceUserManager. Super! >From my initial jsp and/or servlet (not the login page), I would like to access the username of the person who just logged in. How can I do this? I have tried to get attributes from the ServletContext an the session. I have also tried various other things I'd rather not mention . . . So: How can I access the values of j_username and j_password once the user has been logged in? Also, where and what is j_security_check? Thanks, Joanne
