David, Sorry for my ignorance. I don't understand what you are trying to say.
Hari -----Original Message----- From: David Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:41 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: out of Context 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 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >> >> >> Hello Hari, i u r using realm and form based login this works 4 me: >> String user = request.getUserPrincipal().getName(); >> hope this helps, david. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > 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. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
