Re: Retrieve User Role

2009-01-15 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben, Ben Tomlinson wrote: > How do I retrieve information about the user that > is actually logged in? Mainly I want the user role or the user name > but I can't seem to get it from the session. As Alan points out, you can get the UserPrincipal (or

Re: Retrieve User Role

2009-01-08 Thread Ben Tomlinson
Perfect. Thanks. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Alan Chaney wrote: > Hi Ben > > You can get it from the request. In JSP you can access the request implict > object to get the value of the HttpServletRequest#getRemoteUser() method ... > > "Returns the login of the user making this request, if th

Re: Retrieve User Role

2009-01-08 Thread Alan Chaney
Hi Ben You can get it from the request. In JSP you can access the request implict object to get the value of the HttpServletRequest#getRemoteUser() method ... "Returns the login of the user making this request, if the user has been authenticated, or null if the user has not been authenticate

Retrieve User Role

2009-01-08 Thread Ben Tomlinson
I have set up login security for some of the pages in my website. I have a JDBCRealm setup and working correctly. But now I want to change the layout of my pages (all jsp pages) according to the user that is logged in. How do I retrieve information about the user that is actually logged in? Mai