"Carl Maib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > i am attempting the exact same thing, but have been advised it would be > better to override the FormAuthenticator. this gives you direct access to > the session. > > the solution seems perfect, however, i i can't seem to get past > classNotFound exceptions. i am not familiar with how to link catalina > classes and the Class Loader docs are not giving me the answer. > > i have configured server.xml to contain my custom valve, the class which > overrides FormAuthenticator. i have placed this class in common/classes. i > get class not found exceptions on FormAuthenticator bcz my webapp is not > able to reference the necessary objects in catalina.jar.
It needs to be in server/classes, so that it can see the Catalina classes. > > please let me know if you get this solution to work. thanks! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "awc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:41 PM > Subject: Custom JDBCRealm > > > > Hi, > > > > I want to add more stuff to user session while user logs in. The only > > way I see to do this is to write custom JDBCRealm class which extnds > > org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm or implement > > org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase class. > > > > This custom class will have more initializing parameters too. Any > > thoughts on this from one who already did sort of thing?? > > > > I am going to use this one with securityFilere from > > www.securityfilter.org. > > > > Thank you in advance for any replies. > > > > .anil > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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]
