oliver, sorry, j_user_name was just a typo in my post.
sure, the parameter is j_username, and as you can see in the logs, it's read properly from the form by j_security_check. f.y.i., this is the form, which actually is working on our dev-machine but not in our production-environment: <form method="post" action="j_security_check"> <table style="width: 342px; height: 114px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td>User ID</td> <td><input name="j_username" size="20" maxlength="30" type="text"/></td> <td>Password</td> <td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 80px;"> <td><input name="j_password" size="20" maxlength="30" type="password"/></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </form> btw., we tarred the whole tomcat-dir from the machine where the installation is running and moved it 1:1 onto the production-machine, to no avail. meanwhile i believe it's a either bug in j_security_check or the mysql-connector (although we've checked version 3 and 5). tomorrow we'll try to find a copy of the j-mysql-connector version 4 since we're also running mysql 4.1.11, but i don't think that this will help. we will also set up a memory-realm to verify that basically the installation is working (i bet my bottom penny that it will do with a memory-realm), then it comes down to the database (my suspicion is, that the jdbc-driver might have problem with the 64bit-environment). if any of you guys has an idea of how to debug j_security_check (i.e. the package and class, where it's implemented), i'd appreciate any information: i would then try to include some more log-information there which hopefully might help to track the error down. cheers greg -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]