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Subject:    RE: Create a user dynamically
From:       Alan Yu <Alan.Yu () j2global ! com>
Date:       2004-04-26 17:38:36
Message-ID: B3661EF919B7494BAF9DAB9EA391C4834DFC57 () j2exchange ! j2 ! com
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Hi, Ryan,

Thanks for your help. I didn't really get it when I first went through that
section. After you pointed it out, I reviewed it again. And I just tried and
it works now. I use JAASRealm.

By the way, do you or anyone else know how to configure the access
parameters that john is only able to access /files/john and john2 accesses
/files/john2 and new dynamically-created user john100 access only
/files/john100?

Thanks,

-Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Rhodes [mailto:ryanshaerhodes@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:29 PM
To: slide-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: RE: Create a user dynamically

Hi Alan,

At the very bottom of the Security page, there is some information on this.

http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/howto-acl.html

It says:

*******************************************************
Although the creation and maintenance of principal resources (users, 
roles/groups) is out of scope of the WebDAV/ACL specification, in Slide it 
is currently possible through a proprietary extension to the MKCOL method, 
provided the SlideRealm (wrappers.catalina.SlideRealm) is active.

Resources created by MKCOL at the locations specified by the parameters:

userspath (xpath: /slide/namespace/configuration/userspath,
groupspath (xpath: /slide/namespace/configuration/groupspath), or
rolespath (xpath: /slide/namespace/configuration/rolespath)
automatically become principals, i.e. the property DAV:resourcetype 
automatically will contain the DAV:principal element.
******************************************

I am not using either SlideRealm or JAASRealm, so I think that SlideRealm is

no longer required to use MKCOL to create principles.  I have only done this

using the commandline client so far, and I have not created roles with 
MKCOL.

It isn't really feasible to add users to roles using the commandLine client,

because when you set the DAV:group-member-set property of the role, you have

to set all the members at once.  I am setting them using WebdavResource in 
the clientlib and also by directly manipulating the database.

The security documentation doesn't give an example value for 
DAV:group-member-set.  Here is an example value I have in the properties 
table for DAV:group-member-set:

<D:href xmlns:D='DAV:'>/users/rhodesr</D:href><D:href 
xmlns:D='DAV:'>/users/another_user</D:href>

-good luck

>From: Alan Yu <Alan.Yu@j2global.com>
>Reply-To: "Slide Users Mailing List" <slide-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>To: "'slide-user@jakarta.apache.org'" <slide-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>Subject: Create a user dynamically
>Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:47:55 -0700
>
>Hi, all,
>
>
>
>I just started playing with slide a few days ago. I am able to do 
>customized
>authentication by using JAAS. And I am also able to upload/download files
>via Webdav client lib.
>
>
>
>But I am stuck with how to create a user dynamically on server side and
>allow the new users with same authorization access as John and John2. :-) 
>My
>authentication LoginModule talks to my database. If both username and
>password match, I will pass the "Principle" to webdav servlet. But I don't
>have any idea how to create the new user on servlet. I searched the email
>archive and documentation and didn't find anything.
>
>
>
>I would really appreciate if anyone can help me out by sharing some of your
>sample code creating user or give me some hints.
>
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Alan
>
>
>
>
>

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