You could store the password in the session. When the user changes his or
her password, just update the session information.
Kyle Wayne Kelly
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http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Wentzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 5:38 AM
Subject: RE: JDBC Realms
> > I wonder if anyone else has come across this.
> >
> > I'm happily using JDBC Realms with Tomcat v3.3.
> >
> > I would like to let my users change their passwords - of
> > course I can put up
> > a screen that lets them alter the value of their password on
> > the database,
> > but then they have to log in again with the new password. Is
> > there any way
> > round this? - ie to let Tomcat know that they've entered a
> > new password?
>
> If you're using FORM based authentication I believe you could do
> a request passing with a username and new password passed in URL
> as j_username and j_password to j_security_check. Haven't tried
> this myself but it's worth a try.
>
>
> ---
> Michael Wentzel
> Software Developer
> Software As We Think - http://www.aswethink.com
