You need to add to your portlet.xml something like
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| title | Declaring a user attribute in portlet.xmlxml |
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<user-attribute>
<description>User Family Name</description>
<name>user.name.family</name>
</user-attribute>
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Then from within your Portlet code you can access the values like this
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| title | Accessing a user attribute from JSR-168 Java implementationjava |
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Map userInfo = (Map)request.getAttribute(PortletRequest.USER_INFO);
String surname = (String)userInfo.get("user.name.family");
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