Getting user credentials from portal authentication

[broesel]

hi all,

for further authentication at the backend i need to get the information inserted by the user to login into the portal (user, password). is it possible to receive the user credentials after logging in?
i'm using jboss portal 2.7.1.

thanks,
b

[ndrw_cheung]

I use an older version of the portal (version 2.4) and I can do that. What we did was we extended the Login module and "save" the password into an attribute in the session. Sample code below:

HttpServletRequest request =
(HttpServletRequest)javax.security.jacc.PolicyContext.getContext("javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest");
request.getSession().setAttribute("pwd", myPassword);


Hope that helps.

-Andrew

[broesel]

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your reply! That's the approach i am searching for.

But can you specify how to extend the Login Module? I'm just a user of the server and not so familiar with developing/extending modules.

[broesel]

But isn't there a possibility to get the password from the given portal-classes?