atg.security
Interface LoginUserAuthority

All Superinterfaces:

UserAuthority

All Known Implementing Classes:

ActiveDirectoryAccountManager, GenericAccountManager, iPlanetDirectoryAccountManager, LDAPAuthenticationProxy, LDAPRepositoryAccountManager, RepositoryAccountManager, RepositoryApplicationUserAuthority, SerializedAccountManager, atg.userdirectory.UserDirectoryLoginUserAuthority, XmlAccountManager

public interface LoginUserAuthority
extends UserAuthority

Interface that provides name/password (login) style authentication for a user authority.

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

CLASS_VERSION

Method Summary

PasswordHasher	getPasswordHasher() Returns the password hasher object used to encrypt password text to whatever format is required by login().
boolean	login(User user, java.lang.String name, java.lang.String hashedPassword, java.lang.Object hashKey) Authenticates a user, populating the User object with appropriate personae.

Methods inherited from interface atg.security.UserAuthority

addAuthenticationFailedListener, addAuthenticationSucceededListener, getPersona, getUserAuthorityName, removeAuthenticationFailedListener, removeAuthenticationSucceededListener, userDestroyed

Field Detail

CLASS_VERSION

static final java.lang.String CLASS_VERSION

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getPasswordHasher

PasswordHasher getPasswordHasher()

Returns the password hasher object used to encrypt password text to whatever format is required by login(). This should return the value of PasswordHasher.getLoginPasswordHasher() to ensure that a one-time pad is used for authentication if supported by the password hasher.

login

boolean login(User user,
              java.lang.String name,
              java.lang.String hashedPassword,
              java.lang.Object hashKey)

Authenticates a user, populating the User object with appropriate personae.

See Also:

PasswordHasher