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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Dan Allen <da...@mojavelinux.com> on 2003/07/01 08:10:01 UTC
Re: Authentication question and user accounts.
Adam Hardy (ahardy.struts@cyberspaceroad.com) wrote:
> Well it is slightly off-topic because it's more a tomcat issue, but in
> short I don't think you can achieve what you want to achieve using a
> standard realm and container-managed security. You could easily put a
> link to create a new account in your error pagge or have FORM-based CMS
> with a link in the login form to create a new account. There is nothing
> in struts though that will address this issue directly.
>
> HTH
> Adam
>
> mike.witt@honeywell.com wrote:
> >I am using container managed security in Tomcat 4.1.24 with a database
> >realm. All this is working fine. However, I'd like to give the user the
> >possibility of creating a user acount when the login.jsp is displayed.
> >When
> >the user creates the account, I would like to do the login with the
> >supplied
> >credentials and redirect to the originally requested page. I'm not sure if
> >Tomcat's realm classes have a way to do the login in this way and I will
> >check that out. The question I'm wondering about is if anyone knows a good
> >solution for redirecting to the originally requested page (aside from
> >keeping this information in a session bean). Even if I return back to the
> >login.jsp, Tomcat won't know what to do when I hit the "Submit" button.
> >I'm
> >sorry if this is OT for Struts, but this is a Struts app and you never know
> >if Struts has a way to help deal with this.
> >
> >Thanks for any help,
> >
> >Mike Witt
Check the appfuse application. Matt pretty much does everything
that is possible when using container managed security and struts.
By that I mean, if he doesn't do it in appfuse it is darn near
impossible, so definitely check it out.
Dan
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