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Re: Asserting a user and access logging

From: Sam Crawford <samcrawford_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:29:29 +0100

If this is the wrong mailing list, please can someone point me in the right
direction?

Thanks,

Sam


2009/7/17 Sam Crawford <samcrawford_at_gmail.com>

> Anyone have any suggestions?
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> Thanks,
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> Sam
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> 2009/7/16 Sam Crawford <samcrawford_at_gmail.com>
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> Morning all,
>> Probably a fairly silly question, but I've googled and can't find the
>> answer, so I'll ask here.
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>> We've written a custom authentication server filter that interacts with an
>> SSO server. Now, we want to log the authenticated username as a part of the
>> log line in the GlassFish access log. I had imagined this would be simply a
>> case of wrapping the request in an HttpServletRequestWrapper and overriding
>> getRemoteUser and getUserPrincipal. However, after doing this, the username
>> recorded in the access log is still NULL-AUTH-USER.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to properly assert an identity such that it is logged
>> properly by GlassFish into the access log?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sam
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