Thanks Craig!
I had tried defining several security-constraints like this:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>customers</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/pages/customers/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>sales</role-name>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>orders</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/pages/orders/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>sales</role-name>
<role-name>clerks</role-name>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>products</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/pages/products/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>clerks</role-name>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
However, it blew up Tomcat and closed my console window! (I'm running under
Win NT 4.0). So I just figured that I was specifying these wrong.
Turns out the above is correct and I had introduced a different problem,
which caused it to blow up....
Mike
At 12/13/2000 11:37 AM -0800, you wrote:
>Mike La Budde wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit at a loss as to how I'm supposed to configure the role-based
> > security in my webapp's web.xml file.
> >
> > Consider the following scenario for my webapp:
> >
> > area roles
> > /pages/customers/* sales,admin
> > /pages/orders/* sales,clerks,admin
> > /pages/products/* clerks,admin
> >
>
>One thing to remember is that you can list more than one <role-name> inside an
><auth-constraint>. Therefore, I would suggst making a separate security
>constraint for each different set of roles. For example, the entry for
>"/pages/products/*" would look like this:
>
> <security-constraint>
> <web-resource-collection>
> <web-resource-name>Product Info</web-resource-name>
> <url-pattern>/pages/products/*</url-pattern>
> </web-resource-collection>
> <auth-constraint>
> <role-name>clerks</role-name>
> <role-name>admin</role-name>
> </auth-constraint>
> </security-constraint>
>
>You would have a similar constraint for the other two protected areas.
>
>(Note - the <web-resource-name> element is required by the DTD. Tomcat 3.x
>does
>not check for this, but you will get bit if you move to a different servlet
>container later.)
>
>Craig McClanahan
