Re: User Authentication implemented in Struts

2003-10-23 Thread Adam Hardy
If you made roles for each region, you could use them in that way too, however I think that would be too cumbersome. A servlet filter is also a possibility, but also not optimal I think. I would make the implementation depend on the data model rather than the authorisation scheme. For instan

Re: User Authentication implemented in Struts

2003-10-22 Thread Caroline Jen
My question is similar. I use container-managed "role"-based security checking. I put "role" property in Action Mapping and use isUserInRole in my JSPs. For example, John can view the sales reports if he has the "sales role". Now, I want to further restrict John to view the sales reports in is "

Re: User Authentication implemented in Struts

2003-10-22 Thread Adam Hardy
On 10/22/2003 10:21 PM Ramadoss Chinnakuzhandai wrote: apologize for repeating my question againI'm newbie to Struts and hv basic doubt in security level implemented using Struts framework. we are aware that in normal J2EE application we are authenticating user based on user access level spe

RE: User authentication methods (or ways to login a user)

2003-08-26 Thread Bill Chmura
I just went through a whole slew of options, and in the end settled on letting tomcat do form based authentication. It works. Good instructions on it in the tomcat docs. Playing with the app directory structure to get a good fit took a little tweaking, I ended up moving everything around a bun

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-14 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: User Authentication From: "David Bolsover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === Craig Thanks for the lead - I shall certainly follow up - although I have now solved the problem for my present project regards David Bolsover "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROT

RE: User Authentication

2002-06-12 Thread Tero P Paananen
> That's the part I was talking about. Tomcat and Resin aren't > too bad, but I never have found an example of container > managed security with Websphere. WebSphere uses its CustomRegistry interface for the database access layer of container managed security. Please see http://www-3.ibm.com/s

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-12 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Struts Newsgroup wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:10:01 -0700 > From: Struts Newsgroup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: User Authentication > > Subjec

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-12 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: User Authentication From: "David Bolsover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === Hi all I am pleased that my posting provoked so may interesting responses; I was particularly intrigued by the reference to Open Symphony - OSUser module - thanks to Kevin Palfreyman for that. S

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-11 Thread Dave Weis
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > On 10 Jun 2002, Dave Weis wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:56, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > [snip] > > > In general, I would recommend that apps be developed using container > > > managed security capabilities -- for example, form-based login

RE: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Joseph Barefoot
> Container managed security constraints are *based* on roles - only users > who possess particular roles are allowed to access the URL patterns > defined in the corresponding web resource collection. Therefore, the > underlying mechanisms the container uses to support container-managed > securit

RE: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Joseph Barefoot wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:38:30 -0700 > From: Joseph Barefoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL P

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:36:43 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: User Authentication > >

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On 10 Jun 2002, Dave Weis wrote: > Date: 10 Jun 2002 14:00:44 -0500 > From: Dave Weis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: User Authentication > &g

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Michael Rimov
At 11:56 AM 6/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: >On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I can share a couple of useful insights on this topic. > >Fundamentally, there are two major approaches that you can take when your >application requires user login and management: > >- Container-managed securit

RE: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Joseph Barefoot
he user is logged in. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:37 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: User Authentication > > > > > > > > > > > > I&#

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin . Bedell
> > > > I've wondered why Struts provides no specific User Management tools. I'd > > almost expect to see a user.tld tag lib and struts tags such as: > > Craig, Thanks for responding. I figured the answer was pretty much what you had indicated. I also appreciate the exception cases you iden

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Dave Weis
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:56, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: [snip] > In general, I would recommend that apps be developed using container > managed security capabilities -- for example, form-based login defined in > the Servlet spec (http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html). > Then, you c

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:40:45 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: User Authentication > >

RE: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin . Bedell
; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: Kevin Bedell/Systems/USHO/SunLife) Subject: RE: User Authentication I haven't actually used it, but would the Open Symphony - OSUser module help here, even as a

RE: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin A. Palfreyman
: 10 June 2002 16:41 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: User Authentication > > > > I'd like to bring this up at a more general level. > > I've wondered why Struts provides no specific User Management > tools. I'd > almost expect to see a

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin . Bedell
@Basebeans.com) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Kevin Bedell/Systems/USHO/SunLife) Subject: Re: User Authentication Subject: Re: User Authentication From: Torgeir Veimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === David Bolsover wrote: > Vic > > Thanks - you could well be right, my question may be

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: User Authentication From: Torgeir Veimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === David Bolsover wrote: > Vic > > Thanks - you could well be right, my question may be better directed to web > container or JAAS. > What I do know is that using the web xml .. , > .. fea

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-10 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: User Authentication From: "David Bolsover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === Vic Thanks - you could well be right, my question may be better directed to web container or JAAS. What I do know is that using the web xml .. , .. features is not sufficintly flexible for my needs

Re: User Authentication

2002-06-09 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: User Authentication From: "Vic C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === This is web container or a JAAS question. It is hard to say based on your e-mail if you already did it or you are asking how. Typically, after the Struts application is constructed, JAAS is added. An