I suppose you are right this is related to Tomcat. My apologies, I will repost there as well. For the record, I still don't see how you can get Roles from Principal but I will keep looking. Thanks anyway.
-----Original Message----- From: Jacob Hookom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:40 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Retrieving list of Roles defined in web.xml [Revised] You can also getPrincipal from the request, from that, you can ask for the roles You might want to pass this to tomcat users list... this is struts. | -----Original Message----- | From: Vinh Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 7:55 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Retrieving list of Roles defined in web.xml [Revised] | | I can also manage if there is a simple way to identify the roles a user | particpates in (using container managed security). There is a call for | isUserInRole() but nothing for getUserRoles()? | | Any ideas? | | Thanks. | | -----Original Message----- | From: Vinh Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:37 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Retrieving list of Roles defined in web.xml | | | I would like to get a list of Roles listed in web.xml. Is there a simple | way to retrieve info from this file or do I need to use a Digester? | | <security-constraint> | <web-resource-collection> | <role-name>Admin</role-name> | <role-name>Tomcat</role-name> | <role-name>Role1</role-name | </auth-constraint> | </security-constraint> | | Thanks | | | -- | To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user- | [EMAIL PROTECTED]> | For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user- | [EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

