I am using the
Tomcat 5.0.27. In order to use server managed "role-based" authentication, we supply the server with two tables. One of the tables containes userID and password, and the other tables contains userID and userRole (a person can have more than one role).
My difficulty stems from the tables are structured in my database. I do have a table that contains userID and password; however, I do not have a table that contains userID and userRole. In order to know a person's role, I have to navigate from one table to another using foreign key and primary key.
Is there a way to tell the server to navigate from one table to another to find a person's role? Or we "must" create a table that contains userID and userRole for us to use the isUserInRole() method for security check?