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

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static java.lang.String	CLASS_VERSION

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
PasswordHasher	getAlternateUserPasswordHasher() Returns the password hasher object used in case the user password hasher is not present in the user Profile.
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.
boolean	loginWithUserPasswordHasher(User user, java.lang.String name, java.lang.String hashedPassword, java.lang.Object hashKey, PasswordHasher pHasher) Authenticates a user using user specific Password Hasher, 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.

getAlternateUserPasswordHasher

PasswordHasher getAlternateUserPasswordHasher()

Returns the password hasher object used in case the user password hasher is not present in the user Profile. This is used for authentication if user profile doesn't have any associated password hasher component meta data

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

loginWithUserPasswordHasher

boolean loginWithUserPasswordHasher(User user,
                                  java.lang.String name,
                                  java.lang.String hashedPassword,
                                  java.lang.Object hashKey,
                                  PasswordHasher pHasher)

Authenticates a user using user specific Password Hasher, populating the User object with appropriate personae.

See Also:

PasswordHasher