How to get authenticated user's DirContext from JNDIRealm?

[Mark Roy <mr...@nuwave-tech.com>]

I'm using the JNDIRealm to connect to LDAP for user authentication. It's
working great. (I'm using Tomcat 5.0)

My question is: Is there a way for my .jsp to get more information about the
authenticated user, e.g. email address or other attributes stored in the
directory? In other words, is there a way to get the DirContext of the
authenticated user? Lacking that, is there a way to get the user's
distinguished name?

Or, do I have to add my own code to do another search+bind+lookup on the
user returned from request.getAuthUser()?

Thanks,
Mark



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Re: How to get authenticated user's DirContext from JNDIRealm?

[Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>]

You could use request.getUserPrincipal but JNDIRealm doesn't create a 
Principal with the details you need.

That being said - your own code might be the way to go. (An "easy" 
solution could be to create a servlet filter which wraps the servlet 
request and overrides getUserPricipal to return the principal you need.

-Tim

Mark Roy wrote:
> I'm using the JNDIRealm to connect to LDAP for user authentication. It's
> working great. (I'm using Tomcat 5.0)
> 
> My question is: Is there a way for my .jsp to get more information about the
> authenticated user, e.g. email address or other attributes stored in the
> directory? In other words, is there a way to get the DirContext of the
> authenticated user? Lacking that, is there a way to get the user's
> distinguished name?
> 
> Or, do I have to add my own code to do another search+bind+lookup on the
> user returned from request.getAuthUser()?
> 

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