RE: User Registration with Struts query

[John Menke]

Ghoot,

I found another resource that might be helpful

http://www.vsj.co.uk/archive/Feb2002/Javanet/javanet1-0202.asp

-john

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From: Emaho, Ghoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:43 AM
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Subject: User Registration with Struts query


I have a question regarding registering new users of a struts web app.

If the web app is using container managed security, and say form-based
authentication, and a registration action is available for new users, is
there a way to implement the registration process that is portable ?

For instance, if user info is stored in a 'database', the container manages
the authentication checks during login. However when a new user completes
the registration, the registraion action then needs to 'add' this user, but
I dont really want to put the specifics of the user database etc into the
registering action, as it may be deployed using LDAP somewhere else.

All the other security stuff seems to be portable across implementations,
and i know the spec doesnt deal with maintaining users, but does this really
mean that I need to implement specific registration for each different user
'database' that may be used ?

Ideally I want to do something like:

realm.addUser(...)

where 'realm' is the user database (LDAP, RDBMS whatever) which would keep
the registration action portable.

(Note: when I talk about the registration action being portable, i know in
real terms this stuff would be in a helper bean/business delegate, so I
could have different delegates deal with different databases - i just wanted
to keep the question simple, so I say the registration action.)

How have you dealt with this ? Is there a portable solution ?

Thanks for any feedback

Ghoot Emaho
Development Team Leader
Petrotechnics  <http://www.petrotechnics.co.uk/> Ltd




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RE: User Registration with Struts query

[John Menke]

Ghoot,

Is this something you could use?

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/realm-howto.html



-Original Message-
From: Emaho, Ghoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: User Registration with Struts query


I have a question regarding registering new users of a struts web app.

If the web app is using container managed security, and say form-based
authentication, and a registration action is available for new users, is
there a way to implement the registration process that is portable ?

For instance, if user info is stored in a 'database', the container manages
the authentication checks during login. However when a new user completes
the registration, the registraion action then needs to 'add' this user, but
I dont really want to put the specifics of the user database etc into the
registering action, as it may be deployed using LDAP somewhere else.

All the other security stuff seems to be portable across implementations,
and i know the spec doesnt deal with maintaining users, but does this really
mean that I need to implement specific registration for each different user
'database' that may be used ?

Ideally I want to do something like:

realm.addUser(...)

where 'realm' is the user database (LDAP, RDBMS whatever) which would keep
the registration action portable.

(Note: when I talk about the registration action being portable, i know in
real terms this stuff would be in a helper bean/business delegate, so I
could have different delegates deal with different databases - i just wanted
to keep the question simple, so I say the registration action.)

How have you dealt with this ? Is there a portable solution ?

Thanks for any feedback

Ghoot Emaho
Development Team Leader
Petrotechnics  <http://www.petrotechnics.co.uk/> Ltd




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RE: User Registration with Struts query

[Jesse Alexander (KADA 12)]

I'd suggest writing a helper to solve this. The helper would be built with plug-in
realm-specific classes. To make it easier to get access it from a model-class you 
could 
design it as a singleton, if you want to access it only form an action, store it in 
the servlet-context (== application-wide). To set it up I'd use a a startup-servlet 
with 
init-parm's that instantiates the helper and its plug-in.

I do not think there is really a standard-mechanism to add to the realm...

hth
Alexander Jesse

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From: Emaho, Ghoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2002 14:43
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Subject: User Registration with Struts query


I have a question regarding registering new users of a struts web app.
 
If the web app is using container managed security, and say form-based authentication, 
and a registration action is available for new users, is there a way to implement the 
registration process that is portable ?
 
For instance, if user info is stored in a 'database', the container manages the 
authentication checks during login. However when a new user completes the 
registration, the registraion action then needs to 'add' this user, but I dont really 
want to put the specifics of the user database etc into the registering action, as it 
may be deployed using LDAP somewhere else.
 
All the other security stuff seems to be portable across implementations, and i know 
the spec doesnt deal with maintaining users, but does this really mean that I need to 
implement specific registration for each different user 'database' that may be used ?
 
Ideally I want to do something like:
 
realm.addUser(...)
 
where 'realm' is the user database (LDAP, RDBMS whatever) which would keep the 
registration action portable.
 
(Note: when I talk about the registration action being portable, i know in real terms 
this stuff would be in a helper bean/business delegate, so I could have different 
delegates deal with different databases - i just wanted to keep the question simple, 
so I say the registration action.)
 
How have you dealt with this ? Is there a portable solution ?
 
Thanks for any feedback
 
Ghoot Emaho
Development Team Leader
Petrotechnics  <http://www.petrotechnics.co.uk/> Ltd

 

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User Registration with Struts query

[Emaho, Ghoot]

I have a question regarding registering new users of a struts web app.
 
If the web app is using container managed security, and say form-based authentication, 
and a registration action is available for new users, is there a way to implement the 
registration process that is portable ?
 
For instance, if user info is stored in a 'database', the container manages the 
authentication checks during login. However when a new user completes the 
registration, the registraion action then needs to 'add' this user, but I dont really 
want to put the specifics of the user database etc into the registering action, as it 
may be deployed using LDAP somewhere else.
 
All the other security stuff seems to be portable across implementations, and i know 
the spec doesnt deal with maintaining users, but does this really mean that I need to 
implement specific registration for each different user 'database' that may be used ?
 
Ideally I want to do something like:
 
realm.addUser(...)
 
where 'realm' is the user database (LDAP, RDBMS whatever) which would keep the 
registration action portable.
 
(Note: when I talk about the registration action being portable, i know in real terms 
this stuff would be in a helper bean/business delegate, so I could have different 
delegates deal with different databases - i just wanted to keep the question simple, 
so I say the registration action.)
 
How have you dealt with this ? Is there a portable solution ?
 
Thanks for any feedback
 
Ghoot Emaho
Development Team Leader
Petrotechnics   Ltd