I'm using Shiro 1.1 and I've implemented my own realm to be able to
delegate authentication to a legacy application.

I have extended "AuthorizingRealm" and my "doGetAuthenticationInfo" method
returns a "SimpleAuthenticationInfo" containing the user and the password.
To check who is logged in I call

*  Subject currentUser = SecurityUtils.getSubject();*

>From the subject I can found out who is logged in by calling:

*  currentUser.getPrincipal().toString()*

This gives me the login name. I'm not sure if this is how I should do it
but it seems to work fine. However, I also want to retrieve a clear text
name for the currently logged in user. I get this information from our
legacy application and I'd like to present it in our web application. How
can I do this?

I assume that what is returned from my "doGetAuthenticationInfo" method
somehow is stored in the subject. I guess that I could then subclass
"SimpleAuthenticationInfo" and add my extra information. But how can I
retrieve it from the subject?

Best regards,

/Bengt

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