Re: out of Context

[David Brown]

Hari Venkatesan writes:

David,
Thanks for the input. We have all the users in LDAP (Active Directory).
But for this specific application, we have roles defined and I need to
retrieve the roles for the user and store them in session bean. For this
I need the userid from windows. Since the user has already been
authenticated against LDAP to signon to windows, I don't want to
authenticate him again by making him enter his id again.
Hari
-----Original Message-----
From: David Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:27 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: out of Context
Hari Venkatesan writes:

Yes, I am using realm. But actually I don't want the user to type in

the

userid. I want to use the same id that he types in when he logs on to
windows. I am creating an Intranet application and want to use the

same

id that the user logs in signing on to the network.
Hari
-----Original Message-----
From: David Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:54 PM
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Subject: Re: out of Context
Hari Venkatesan writes:

Is there a way to retrieve windows userid from the client side using
java or javascript?
Hari
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Hello Hari, i u r using realm and form based login this works 4 me:
String user = request.getUserPrincipal().getName();
hope this helps, david.
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Hello Hari, it is probably not practical to try and fetch the windoz
userid. u best bet may be to put everything into a LDAP database centralized to everything else: windoz, tc etc. hope this helps, david.

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Hello Hari, well since u r running LDAP just have a central (or director type) servlet running that authenticates the users as they login from LDAP and uses the tc SingleSignon. this way that don't get prompted again. what r the holes in this idea? thanx, david.

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