Legolas Woodland wrote On 08/29/06 05:17,:
> Hi
> Thank you for reading my post
> I read in articles ant tutorial that we can use Realms + *form/basic
> *authentication to authenticate users with username/password.
> I also made a sample web application with all changes in web.xml and
> server configuration.
> Now the problem is : how can i understand which user is loged in now ?
> i mean how i can retrive current user' username ?
The authenticated user may be retrieved using these
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest methods:
public String getRemoteUser();
public java.security.Principal getUserPrincipal();
Hope this answers your question.
Jan
>
> before this i used my own authentication mechanism and i add the
> UserName to session , so i could understand the userName by looking at
> a variable in session.
> but for this container managed authentication, i do not know where to
> look at to understand the current userName.
>
> thanks