atg.security
Interface UserAuthority

All Known Subinterfaces:

CertificateUserAuthority, IdUserAuthority, LoginUserAuthority, PrincipalUserAuthority, ProxyUserAuthority, UserAuthority2

All Known Implementing Classes:

ActiveDirectoryAccountManager, ClientUserAuthority, GenericAccountManager, GenericProxyUserAuthority, GenericUserAuthority, iPlanetDirectoryAccountManager, LDAPAuthenticationProxy, LDAPRepositoryAccountManager, RepositoryAccountManager, RepositoryApplicationUserAuthority, SerializedAccountManager, SerializedProxyUserAuthority, atg.userdirectory.UserDirectoryLoginUserAuthority, UserDirectoryUserAuthority, XmlAccountManager

public interface UserAuthority

This interface is used for authenticating a user. It produces Persona objects that are used to identify a user and any roles that the user may have.

User authorities are also used to separate potentially overlapping namespaces; an account name is considered unique if it has a different user authority even if the name is otherwise identical.

See Also:

Persona, User, User.hasUserAuthority(atg.security.UserAuthority)

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

CLASS_VERSION

Method Summary

void	addAuthenticationFailedListener(DataListener listener) Adds a listener for "authentication failed" events.
void	addAuthenticationSucceededListener(DataListener listener) Adds a listener for "authentication succeeded" events.
Persona	getPersona(java.lang.Object id) Returns a persona for the given ID object.
java.lang.String	getUserAuthorityName() Returns the name of the user authority.
void	removeAuthenticationFailedListener(DataListener listener) Removes a listener for "authentication failed" events.
void	removeAuthenticationSucceededListener(DataListener listener) Removes a listener for "authentication succeeded" events.
void	userDestroyed(User user) Called by a User object when it is destroyed.

Field Detail

CLASS_VERSION

static final java.lang.String CLASS_VERSION

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getUserAuthorityName

java.lang.String getUserAuthorityName()

Returns the name of the user authority.

userDestroyed

void userDestroyed(User user)

Called by a User object when it is destroyed. This can be used to clean up internal references to the user object.

getPersona

Persona getPersona(java.lang.Object id)

Returns a persona for the given ID object. This is typically used by an ACL parser, where the ID is usually a string. Returns null if there is no persona for the indicated ID.

addAuthenticationSucceededListener

void addAuthenticationSucceededListener(DataListener listener)

Adds a listener for "authentication succeeded" events.

removeAuthenticationSucceededListener

void removeAuthenticationSucceededListener(DataListener listener)

Removes a listener for "authentication succeeded" events.

addAuthenticationFailedListener

void addAuthenticationFailedListener(DataListener listener)

Adds a listener for "authentication failed" events.

removeAuthenticationFailedListener

void removeAuthenticationFailedListener(DataListener listener)

Removes a listener for "authentication failed" events.