>>>>> "mnordio" == mnordio  <mnordio@l...> writes:

    mnordio> Hi,
    mnordio>  I'm pretty new with Jsp and I'd like to know how I can use a password to 
    mnordio> login a web page.
    mnordio> I read something about that (j_security_check for example) but I haven't 
    mnordio> understood clearly how it works and where the password and user name are 
    mnordio> stored.
    mnordio> I'm using Tomcat 3.2.

Do you have the book this list is related to, "Professional JSP, 2nd Edition"?
Read chapter 16, "Application Events and Web Application Security".  If you
don't have the book, you can at least download the code from
<ftp://ftp.wrox.com/Professional/4958-src.zip>.

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