Thanks Jan, I have to apologize not to have explained the intended usage: I need username, userpassword and userrole since I will use it for DB-Authorization (GRANT to group, and user to tables and so on, connecting DB with username,userpass). I intend to synchronize username, password and role with the authDB of the specific Datebase (Interbase and isc4.gdb). Is there a methode like org.apache.catalina.realm.GenericPrincipal principal = request.getUserPrincipal() for Tomcat 3.2.2 and is there an elegant method for attaching password, too? Thank you for help Thomas "Pernica, Jan" wrote: >It depends what do you want: >to get user login = request.getRemoteUser() >to whether he/she have a role you can use >request.isUserInRole("myrole") > > Even you are able to get the list of roles > org.apache.catalina.realm.GenericPrincipal principal = >request.getUserPrincipal(); >principal.getRoles() > >Regards > >Jan On Monday, May 28, 2001 4:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hello, > > I want to use the provided user_pass and user_role in the > JDBCRealm-Database given in server.xml. What is the most elegant way to do > this? Of cource I would be able to get it via request.getRemoteUser() and > then make a select to the hardcoded database name with provided auth user > and pass like it is given in server.xml. But there must be a better way > since database name, username and driver url is already included in the > Realm section? How to use it? I read the JDBCRealm code but I did not find > out where it gets the connectionUrl a.s.o. > > Best Regards > Thomas