Hello,
after the user has been authenticated, you should be able to retrieve the
username by calling request.getRemoteUser() (see also
request.isUserInRole(), and request.getUserPrincipal()).
Hope, that helps
Regards,
Joerg
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Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 7:58 PM
Subject: authenticating against a glassfish realm is a pain
> After many stressful hours I have worked out that j_security_check is a
> load of old horse dung and should not be used in a production environment.
>
> My main gripe is that you can not use a filter to extract the username and
> password and store them in a session object. This is a WOEFULL oversight.
> Authentication using form-based login and j_security_check is handled
> effortlessly by glassfish. However what happens if you then want to greet
> the user after she has successfully logged in? How can you then extract
> the j_username value and store it in a session object for future
> reference?
>
> There must be a better way of authenticating. please put me out of my
> misery and point me in the correct direction.
>
> One of those moments when the beauty of Glassfish is stained because of
> what can surely only be a horrendous oversight.
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