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From: "struts Dude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 5:36 PM
Subject: SecurityFilter Question?


> Hi
> 
> Can someone give me a few pointers on using SecurityFilter
> with Struts? This can save me potentially hrs of debugging.
> 
> My securityfilter-config.xml is:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE securityfilter-config PUBLIC
>     "-//SecurityFilter.org//DTD Security Filter Configuration 1.1//EN"
>     "http://www.securityfilter.org/dtd/securityfilter-config_1_1.dtd";>
> 
> <securityfilter-config>
> 
>    <security-constraint>
>       <web-resource-collection>
>          <web-resource-name>Admin Page</web-resource-name>
>          <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
>       </web-resource-collection>
>       <auth-constraint>
>          <role-name>admin</role-name>
>       </auth-constraint>
>    </security-constraint>
> 
>    <security-constraint>
>       <web-resource-collection>
>          <web-resource-name>User Page</web-resource-name>
>          <url-pattern>/user/*</url-pattern>
>       </web-resource-collection>
>       <auth-constraint>
>          <role-name>user</role-name>
>       </auth-constraint>
>    </security-constraint>
> 
>    <login-config>
>       <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
>       <form-login-config>
>          <form-login-page>/WEB-INF/pages/Login.jsp</form-login-page>
>          <form-error-page>/WEB-INF/pages/error.jsp</form-error-page>
>          <form-default-page>/index.jsp</form-default-page>
>       </form-login-config>
>    </login-config>
> 
>    <realm className="app.IbatisSecurityRealm">
>       <realm-param name="exampleProperty" value="it works!" />
>    </realm>
> 
> </securityfilter-config>
> 
> Now my struts-config.xml has something like
> 
>  <action path="/LogAction" 
>      type="app.LogAction" 
>      name="logonForm" 
>      scope="request" 
>      input="/WEB-INF/pages/Logon.jsp" 
>      parameter="action"
>      validate="false">
>      <forward
>       name="success"
>       path="/WEB-INF/pages/Welcome.jsp"/>
>      </action>
> 
> 
> And the path of every action in struts-config.xml will be 
> prefixed with either /admin/ or /user/ except for
> those actions that forwards to Home page, login and
> free info JSP page.
> 
> Now Login.jsp has a submit button that will invoke LogAction,
> which will put a User bean in Session once user is validated.
> 

Just found out I have to use action="j_security_check" in <form ...>
tag. So how do I make sure user bean is added to Session within
LogAction once authentication by SecurityFilter is success???

I would like to invoke SecurityFilter authentication before user
hits a restricted page and is redirected to login page , i.e. say have
login form in front page or every non-restricted page.

> 
> Thanks
> 
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