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I use a standard user profile ( hard coded for the intanet ) and when a user needs access to restricted data I have a seperate user id/password which the user must enter that I validate using a table on the as400. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick L Archibald" <Patrick.Archibald@HOMETELCO.COM> To: <JAVA400-L@midrange.com> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: Authentication solution for applet using JDBC on an employee Intranet > Hi > > I have a question about authentication methods > regarding applets. My system is V4R5, WAS 3.5.2. > > I have a applet on my employee Intranet > using the jtopen JDBC driver in jt400.jar. > It displays some hierarchical data in a swing JTree. > It is working fine. > > The employee Intranet has basic authentication, > set up in the http configuration, > requiring an AS/400 user profile and password. > > My problem is I would like to avoid the request for > user id and password when making a JDBC connection > via the applet. I don't have this problem in my > servlets. From what I can tell and read, servlet > JDBC connections use the user profile QEJBSVR > I'm using the native DB2 JDBC driver in the servlets. > > Here are the solutions I've thought of, none of > which I like: > > 1. Create a profile for running JBDC queries and hard-code it in my applets. > 2. Add a password to QEJBSVR and hard-code it in my applets. > 3. Require the user to key his profile and password again, first when logging on to the Intranet and second when the applet makes > the JDBC connection. > > I wish the applet would use the profile and password used in the http authentication to the Intranet. That would be ideal. Does > anyone else have a solution that is simple and easy to administer? > > Thanx, PLA > / > / Patrick L Archibald > / http://HomeTelco.com/pla/ > / > > +--- > | This is the JAVA/400 Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to JAVA400-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to JAVA400-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to JAVA400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner: joe@zappie.net > +--- > +--- | This is the JAVA/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to JAVA400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to JAVA400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to JAVA400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: joe@zappie.net +---
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