Hi All,
Thanks for your responses. They were very helpful.
Joanne
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Joanne
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Subject: Username and Password
HI All,
I'm new to J2EE and Orion. I have
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
HttpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal().getName() should do the trick.
Jeff Schnitzer
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Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:30 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Username and Password
HI All,
I'm
You can get the user name for the request like this:
request.getRemoteUser()
I think, by design, you are not able to get the password from the container.
You can however, use the request.isUserInRole() method to see what role they
are in. Otherwise, you'll need to access your DB for the
Dear Joanne,
String username = request.getRemoteUser();
That does the trick for me.
As far as the password, this is what I do.
Protect a servlet or jsp(lets say /login) where you want to get the vital
information from within your web.xml. Since you have already used form-based
