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[Ole Ersoy]

Li,

(Guys I'm still getting started with CAS, so if anything looks off, please correct it)
As far as I know CAS will only populate the Principal's name (Stored in the session).  
But once you have that you should be able to query an LDAP directory or rdbms using it as a query parameter to fetch the row or ldap entry containing the rest of the user information.

CAS populates the principal user name attribute after the user has authenticated and has a ticket granting cookie, so the user name will always be available on the principal.

Cheers,
- Ole

Li Wei Nan wrote:
> Besides user loginname, can I get any additional information about user?
> 
> It's seems CAS can manage and populate principal's attribute. Is it 
> stored in session or there's a CAS protocol to fetch it?
> 
> In WIKI there's a config sample with LDAP, but ours is JDBC. And it says 
> "Attributes are controlled by the _JA-SIG Person Directory project" 
> <http://developer.ja-sig.org/projects/person-directory/>_
> 
> Does that mean I must use this project to fetch user attributes?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> - Li Wei Nan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le 2008-2-14 à ??7:27, Wilson França a écrit :
> 
>> Thanx!
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2008 5:39 PM, Ole Ersoy <ole.ersoy at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:ole.ersoy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I think you want this:
>>
>>     HttpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal()
>>
>>     This returns:
>>     java.security.Principal
>>
>>
>>     Now call
>>     java.security.Principal.getName()
>>
>>     to get the name of Principal (User that logged in).
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     - Ole
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Wilson França wrote:
>>     > Hi,
>>     >
>>     > Can i get information about the user after login is successfull?
>>     >
>>     > if yes, how?
>>     >
>>     > Thanx
>>     >
>>     > Wilson
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
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