If you are using form auth you should still be getting isUserInRole to be true after you have logged in once, even on unprotected pages. I'm not sure if there are any tests for this anywhere, especially for jsps that aren't listed in web.xml. We have gotten this to work for servlets at various times.

If you are using basic or digest auth, you won't AFAIK. I'm not sure about client-cert auth.

Which geronimo version are you using?

thanks
david jencks

On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:57 AM, blb wrote:


I finally succededed in getting true from the isUserInRole() call, protecting
more resources in the web.xml file.
I have to check the whole application to see if the unauthenticated section still works (some of the resources i have put in the protected area are
used by both parts).
I'll keep you informed of the results.

Fabrice

blb wrote:

I did a few more tests.
The  isUserInRole() returns true only for protected servlets.
I didn't succeded yet in declarings the jsps as protected resources.

Fabrice

blb wrote:

David,

Thanks for your reply.

1) Yes, the authentication works well.

2) isUserInRole() always returns false. It is called from a jsp which is not declared in the webapp protected resources (this configuration worked well in Tomcat). I'll try to declare the jsps in the protected resources
to check if the problem is solved.

3) The webapp is made of jsps and servlets. The isUserInRole() call
returns true in a protected servlet.

Fabrice



djencks wrote:

I'd like to clarify a couple of points...

- IIUC, you have to authenticate to access a secured page, this part
of security is working fine?

- From a secured page, you cannot use isUserInRole()?

- are all your pages jsps? Do they have servlet mappings? Does this
occur with a secured servlet?

thanks
david jencks

On Dec 17, 2009, at 7:10 AM, blb wrote:


Hi all,

I am migrating from Tomcat to Geronimo and need some help to finish to
configure security for a webapp.
I can authenticate a user within Geronimo but I'm not able to get
the user
role.
The request.isUserInRole() call always returns false.

You can find below an extract of the configuration files concerned by
security:
http://old.nabble.com/file/p26829415/extract_geronimo-web.xml
extract_geronimo-web.xml
http://old.nabble.com/file/p26829415/extract_web.xml extract_web.xml

Can you please tell me what's wrong (or missing) with the webapp
configuration ?
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