Unless you have changed something in tomcat-users.xml, the role assigned
to the "tomcat" user is "tomcat", not "Tomcat". Role names, like pretty
much everything else in servlets and JSPs, are case sensitive.
Craig
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Antony Bowesman wrote:
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:56:00 +0300
> From: Antony Bowesman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: TomcatUser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Can't get SecurityRoleRef/Tomcat4 working
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't get the <security-role-ref> to work in Tomcat 4 with the
> security JSP.
>
> I have added the following
>
> <%
> if (request.isUserInRole("Admin")) {
> %>
> User is in Admin role
> <%
> } else {
> %>
> User is NOT in Admin role
> <%
> }
> %>
>
> to jsp/security/protected/index.jsp in the distribution to Tomcat 4.
>
> As security-role-ref is part of a servlet element of web.xml how do you
> specify this with a JSP.
>
> I tried adding the following to web.xml
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>
> Protected
> </servlet-name>
> <jsp-file>/jsp/security/protected/index.jsp</jsp-file>
> <security-role-ref>
> <description>Link between Admin and sysadmin</description>
> <role-name>Admin</role-name>
> <role-link>Tomcat</role-link>
> </security-role-ref>
> </servlet>
>
> My user authenticates and is given the role 'Tomcat' but the Realm
> hasRole() method is called with 'Admin'.
>
> The code in HttpRequestBase does
>
> public boolean isUserInRole(String role) {
> ...
> if (wrapper != null) {
> String realRole = wrapper.findSecurityReference(role);
> if ((realRole != null) &&
> realm.hasRole(userPrincipal, realRole))
> return (true);
> }
>
> to map the servlet role to security-role so I guess I have not got
> web.xml set up properly.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Antony
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