Re: user in the session

Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:16:28 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.securityfilter.user
Message-ID <1122131788.23779.1.camel@localhost>
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:42 -0400, Jesse Vitrone wrote:
> I have security filter set up and working nicely, but I'd like to have 
> control over where in the session the user gets put.  I'd like to have 
> my user just under "user" in the session, but I don't see a way to have 
> securityfilter put it there, nor for me to put it there when I 
> authenticate them.  Am I missing something?  Does everyone else just 
> leave the user in the pricipal in 
> "org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityRequestWrapper.PRINCIPAL" in the session?

The nice feature of the securityfilter is that you can retrieve the user
principal with the standard request.getUserPrincipal() method. You can
then cast this principal impl to whatever implementation class you know
you're using.

-- 
Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]>



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