Thanks, Tim.
That's a lot of help.
Robyne

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:04 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: [OT] Re: Tomcat Authenticates to AD. How do I access AD
variables?


 From the user id that tomcat returns, you'll need to determine the DN.
In 
which you can do (I think) this way:

1) When constructing your context, use "follow", which makes it nice
when you 
are using a forrest of domains (if thats the right term) for example:
    env.put(Context.REFERRAL, "follow");
2) Get the DN from the userid. Here I assume sAMAccountName is used for
userid.
   SearchControls constraints = new SearchControls();
   constraints.setSearchScope(SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
   NamingEnumeration results =
          ctx.search(organization_,
                     "(&(sAMAccountName=" + userId + "))",
                     constraints);
3) You should now how have the DN so you may do subsequent attribute
lookups. 
Through normal JNDI calls. (I think)

I don't do much JNDI stuff, so I can't vouch that the above is in any
manner 
correct. (But I hope it is)

-Tim

Robyne Vaughn wrote:

> Tim, 
> Thanks for your reply.    I do mean attributes.
> I don't know much about JNDI. (excuse me if I don't know the correct 
> wording).
> 
>   I do have one little JNDI program which I copied and altered. It 
> hits active directory with an authorized connection name and OU and 
> etc.  All of which are hard-coded.  Then, I change context to another 
> hardcoded name and OU and can get certain attributes with that info. 
> If I don't specify an OU, I don't find what I'm looking for. The 
> problem is that when a user logs in, I don't know what their OU is.  
> Tomcat handles that for me.  I don't know how to plug in the correct 
> "path" in to a user's data.  All I know is getRemoteUser and that 1 
> little piece of info isn't enough to find a user's attributes with.  
> When I look in my logs, I can see what DN tomcat followed to 
> authenticate my user.  That hints to me that I ought to be able to 
> extract the "path" (DN?) to use.
> 
> All I know about JNDI, I've found out in the last 2 weeks.  If you 
> have some coding examples you would care to share.  I would greatly 
> appreciate it.  (I have seen the sun tutorial - it's incomplete where 
> AD is concerned)



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