PortalFilter, in the 2.1 release, appears to do just that. I uncommented it
in the portal web.xml, and that did the trick. Thanks!

On 5/24/07, David Sean Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On May 24, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Joshua Phillips wrote:

> I have created a custom security valve for my SSO requirements. It
> successfully populates the JAAS subject and puts in into the
> session. This
> allows users to log in and have the correct roles. However, the user
> principal of the HttpServiceRequest is never populated. So, for
> example, the
> Logout link is not displayed by header.vm, which checks for the
> presence of
> the user principal.
>
> My question is, besides providing my own security valve, what do I
> have to
> do to ensure that the basic security mechanisms work as expected?
> I've read
> previous threads on the security valve which were quite helpful,
> but didn't
> address this issue.
>
In the custom security valves we have implemented in the past, we had
an external authentication system we were integrating with.
A servlet filter can be used to wrapper the HttpServletRequest's
principal




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