Package org.mmbase.security

The security infrastructure of MMBase.

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Class Summary

Authentication	This class is a empty implementation of the Authentication, it will only return that the authentication succeeded.
Authorization	This class is a empty implementation of the Authorization, it will only return that operations are valid.
MMBaseCop	This class is the main class of the security system.
MMBaseCopConfig	This class is the main class of the security system.
NoAuthentication	This class is used when no authentication is configured.
NoAuthorization	This class is used when no authorization is configured.
Operation	This class is somekinda enumeration of the operations possible within the security context
Rank	This class defines Rank objects which are used in security implementation.
UserContext	This UserContext class provides a storage for the authentication and authorization, so that information can be shared.

Exception Summary

SecurityException

Thrown by the security classes to indicate a security violation/malfunction.

Package org.mmbase.security Description

The security infrastructure of MMBase. MMBase has a pluggable security system, which is currently called from within the bridge implementation. The core of this setup are the abstract classes `Authorization' and `Authenication'.

There are several interesting security implementation available in a standard MMBase installation, but you can always implement your own. The implementations can be found in subpackages of org.mmbase.bridge.implementation.

• The most powerful implementation is the 'context' implementation which supplies a a system of user, groups and 'contextes', which is configured by a sophisticated xml file.
• The default implementation however is the 'cloud' implementation which is a more simple simple system with only users (no groups) which are stored as MMBase objects, so you can administrate this with the normal MMBase edit tools.

Since:

MMBase-1.4

See Also:

org.mmbase.bridge, org.mmbase.security.implementation.context, org.mmbase.security.implementation.basic, org.mmbase.security.implementation.cloud