NT Authentication in JSP

[Katia Platonov]

Hello everyone,
I am using Tomcat-4.0.4 on NT4. I would like to do an NT authentication and I am not sure where to start.
Any help, pointers, etc. will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Lana.

[Zac Roberts]

What is an NT authentication? Is it like using basic or form based authentication in a web app using JSP?

[Katia Platonov]

Well, what I would like to do is grab user id from NT login and place it as a variable in a query in my JSP page.

[Ruilin Yang]

In that case why do you need authentication for your JSP since you rely on NT Auth. as long as someone logged into NT you are OK.

[Vedhas Pitkar]

Hi!I dont think that u can get the NT login in tomcat coz we tried it many times But finally ended up using a asp page which retrives the nt login & then redirects to a jsp page.Sorry 4 u.

[David O'Meara]

Originally posted by Vedhas Pitkar:
Hi!I dont think that u can get the NT login in tomcat coz we tried it many times But finally ended up using a asp page which retrives the nt login & then redirects to a jsp page.Sorry 4 u.

Vedhas, please try to reduce the contractions in you posts. It just reduces understanding
thanks,
Dave.

[Katia Platonov]

To Ruilin Yang:
Unfortunately I am not "ok". NT login ID matches an ID in one of the user tables. I need to prepopulate the form with user information by recognizing him in this manner: extract NT id, put it into a variable and query the user table where user_id = 'StringNTid';
Thanks for everybody's input.
Lana.

[Jose Velarde]

You can try this:

  
String userName;
userName = System.getProperty("user.name");

[Zac Roberts]

Jose -
Great solution, I just tested on Tomcat with Windows NT and lo and behold up came my user name...

[Vedhas Pitkar]

Sorry David.But my boss roams around these days So i try to keeps the messages short & sweet.
Zac Have u tried it with different NT machines?Because i think that the user.name() returns the name of the machine on whose JVM the code is currently running.We tried it but didnt work for us.Different machines ,that is.

[Zac Roberts]

I did not try it on different machines yet but that is also a good point...