Actually I have tried that and it doesn't work. One of the problems is that class is visible to Tomcat only. I tried placing a copy of the jar in the common/lib area and get classloading problems. I am not sure how to make that work. If you have any other ideas I would appreciate it.
Thanks for your help. -----Original Message----- From: Isen,Ciji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:00 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat and Apache Axis Security Have you tried access it from the Principal. GenericPrincipal p = (GenericPrincipal)request.getUserPrincipal(); String uid = p.getName(); String passwd = p.getPassword(); Srofe, Douglas (c) wrote: >We use single sign for our Tomcat applications. We have another Tomcat >that hosts various web services. I would like to be able to send the >logged on users name and password as credentials to the web service and >have Tomcat authenticate it. I have tested this part with a hardcoded >user name and password and this works fine. But I need to send the >username and password used when the user logged on. How do I get >access to the password that was used when the user logged on so I can >send it as part of the credentials to the web service? Am I going to >have to write custom authenticators and realms in order to do this? > >Thanks for any response. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]