hi thanks for the clarification
can you offer me some advice on application managed security? my requirement is that i have both users and groups within my system martin -----Original Message----- From: Dmitri Colebatch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 November 2001 10:32 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Form based login The idea of form based login is that the servlet container does the job for you. so you dont write anything, apart from provide the look and feel for the form. what you are describing is essentially application managed security... hth dim On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Martin Farrell wrote: > Hi > > How can I use a form based login within the struts framework? > > My basic problem is that i can set up the tomcat realm and validate a user > to allow access to an area, but I want to be able to access the entered > j_username and j_password variables on the webapp side. One solution might > be to allow a successful form based login to forward to a struts form to > strip out the parameters and populate the relevant beans in my action class? > Is this possible? I would prefer to use this method because I dont want to > be writing a set of login methods as part of my application > > I have read thru the mailing lists and found nothing to demonstrate this. > > Thanks > > Martin > > > ** For great Emap magazine subscription & gift offers visit http://www.emapmagazines.co.uk ** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > The information in this email is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. > Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message any disclosure, copying, > distribution or any action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. > > Emap plc and or its subsidiaries do not warrant that any attachments are free from > viruses or other defects and accept no liability for any losses resulting from > infected email transmissions. > > Please note that any views expressed in this email may be those of the originator > and do not necessarily reflect those of this organisation. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
