Re: mapping a user to a group using DataSourceUserManager
Russ, to my understanding, user/group-to-role mapping is done in orion-application.xml (orion deployment files). Principals.xml defines users and groups in a manner unrelated to J2EE roles and is thus comparable to the user base you have in any other datastore. regards, Christian - Original Message - From: "Russ White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:57 PM Subject: mapping a user to a group using DataSourceUserManager I have spent the morning looking through the archives and not really found what I am looking for. I found that I can grab username and password from the DataSourceUserManager just fine, but I have to map the user to a group manually still with priciples.xml. If this is the only way to do this then it is a real drag, and really makes it almost useless in my book. Is there any way for me to grab a user's group from DataSourceUserManager? If so what is the property name? If not what are my other options? Thanks, Russ
RE: mapping a user to a group using DataSourceUserManager
The extra fields described in the API docs and the docs for orion-application.xml, as they pertain to user managers, specifically DataSourceUserManager, allow you to specify a groups table also (which can be the same as the username+password table). EJBUserManager also allows for groups. This all works just fine, I've found, for retrieval, and mapping a user to a role at login(), without having to specify users in principals.xml (which, as you say, is the whole point). I think there are problems with some of the methods, though, like addToGroup(), and getGroup(). This would affect creation of new users and adding them to groups, but for an existing user base you're OK. Arved Sandstrom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ White Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:57 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: mapping a user to a group using DataSourceUserManager I have spent the morning looking through the archives and not really found what I am looking for. I found that I can grab username and password from the DataSourceUserManager just fine, but I have to map the user to a group manually still with priciples.xml. If this is the only way to do this then it is a real drag, and really makes it almost useless in my book. Is there any way for me to grab a user's group from DataSourceUserManager? If so what is the property name? If not what are my other options? Thanks, Russ
RE: mapping a user to a group using DataSourceUserManager
Actually, I found the answer after looking through the Orion API last night at home. It can be done by mapping the UserManager to a user/group table. Now that I have it working I am thinking of writing a tutorial on using the DataSourceUserManager to submit to orionsupport.com Thanks for the response! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian Sell Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:12 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: mapping a user to a group using DataSourceUserManager Russ, to my understanding, user/group-to-role mapping is done in orion-application.xml (orion deployment files). Principals.xml defines users and groups in a manner unrelated to J2EE roles and is thus comparable to the user base you have in any other datastore. regards, Christian - Original Message - From: "Russ White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:57 PM Subject: mapping a user to a group using DataSourceUserManager I have spent the morning looking through the archives and not really found what I am looking for. I found that I can grab username and password from the DataSourceUserManager just fine, but I have to map the user to a group manually still with priciples.xml. If this is the only way to do this then it is a real drag, and really makes it almost useless in my book. Is there any way for me to grab a user's group from DataSourceUserManager? If so what is the property name? If not what are my other options? Thanks, Russ
