We faced the same problem and queried on WebLogic newsgroup.
It is very unfortunate that WebLogic was not bothered to address such serious
issues. If this is a bug, they have the responsibility to accept it and release
a fix.
Girish
Ashwath Narayan wrote:
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> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: caller identity
>
> Thanks Rajan
>
> But the setting in the DD is already as you mentioned.
> ie runAsMode CLIENT_IDENTITY
>
> Ashwath
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rajan Kashyap
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 5:08 AM
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> Subject: Re: caller identity
>
> Hi,
> Run your session bean as CLIENT_IDENTITY.
> set RunAsMode as CLIENT_IDENTITY in you DD.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rajan
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ashwath Narayan
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 3:12 AM
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> Subject: caller identity
>
> I am sorry if this topic was discussed before.
>
> We are using WebLogic 4.5.1
> All our database tables have a username field, which hold the name of the
> person who created/updated the record.
> When the user logs in, in the servlet I create the JNDI context object using
> his username and password.
>
> In the EJB, I extract the user's name using
>
> String username = sessionContext.getCallerIdentity().getName();
> or
> String username = entityContext.getCallerIdentity().getName();
>
> ( getCallerPrincipal() is not supported in WebLogic 4.5.1)
>
> Assume I make a sessionbean call and session bean calles entitybeans.
> I get the user's name right in the sessionbean.
> But in the entitybean i get the user's name as "system".
>
> Question: What is the way to get the actual user name in the entity bean
> also?
>
> Note: I create the JNDI context object in session bean using
>
> Context ctx = sessonContext.getEnvironment();
>
> I won't be able to create context object from scratch since I don't
> have
> the user's password when I am in sessionbean.
>
> TIA
> Ashwath
>
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