org.mmbase.security.implementation.cloud
Class Authenticate

java.lang.Object
  org.mmbase.security.Configurable
      org.mmbase.security.Authentication
          org.mmbase.security.implementation.cloud.Authenticate

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuthenticationData

public class Authenticate

extends Authentication

Very simply security from within MMBase. You might want to look at Cloud Context Security which offers a much more powerfull implementation.

Version:

$Id: Authenticate.java,v 1.11 2006/05/16 18:07:20 michiel Exp $

Author:

Eduard Witteveen, Michiel Meeuwissen

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.mmbase.security.Authentication

PARAMETERS_ANONYMOUS, PARAMETERS_NAME_PASSWORD, PARAMETERS_USERS

Fields inherited from class org.mmbase.security.Configurable

configFile, configResource, configWatcher, manager

Fields inherited from interface org.mmbase.security.AuthenticationData

METHOD_ANONYMOUS, METHOD_ASIS, METHOD_DEFAULT, METHOD_DELEGATE, METHOD_HTTP, METHOD_LOGINPAGE, METHOD_LOGOUT, METHOD_PAGELOGON, METHOD_SESSIONDELEGATE, METHOD_SESSIONLOGON, METHOD_UNSET, PARAMETER_AUTHENTICATE, PARAMETER_LOGOUT, PARAMETER_PASSWORD, PARAMETER_RANK, PARAMETER_SESSIONNAME, PARAMETER_USERNAME, PARAMETER_USERNAMES, STRINGS

Constructor Summary

Authenticate()

Method Summary

protected Rank	getRank(String userName) Gets rank from user, whici sin
boolean	isValid(UserContext usercontext) The method returns wether the UserContext has become invalid for some reason (change in security config?)
protected void	load() This method should be overrided by an extending class. It should further initialize the class. It can optionally retrieve settings from the general security configuration file (available as the 'configFile' member). Security implementations with complicated configuration would typically retrieve a path to their own configuration file only. Implementation is empty here.
UserContext	login(String moduleName, Map loginInfo, Object[] parameters) This method will verify the login, and give a UserContext back if the login procedure was successful.

Methods inherited from class org.mmbase.security.Authentication

createParameters, getDefaultMethod, getKey, getMethod, getTypes, getTypes

Methods inherited from class org.mmbase.security.Configurable

load

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Authenticate

public Authenticate()

Method Detail

load

protected void load()

This method should be overrided by an extending class. It should further initialize the class. It can optionally retrieve settings from the general security configuration file (available as the 'configFile' member). Security implementations with complicated configuration would typically retrieve a path to their own configuration file only. Implementation is empty here.

Specified by:

load in class Configurable

getRank

protected Rank getRank(String userName)

Gets rank from user, whici sin

Since:

MMBase-1.8

login

public UserContext login(String moduleName,
                         Map loginInfo,
                         Object[] parameters)
                  throws SecurityException

This method will verify the login, and give a UserContext back if the login procedure was successful.

Specified by:

login in class Authentication

Parameters:

moduleName - A String that further specifies the login method (one implementation could handle more then one methods) A typical value might be 'username/password'.

loginInfo - A Map containing the credentials or other objects which might be used to obtain them (e.g. request/response objects). It might also be 'null', in which case your implementation normally should return the 'anonymous' user (or null, if no such user can be defined).

parameters - A list of optional parameters, may also (and will often) be null.

Returns:

nullThrows:

SecurityException - When something strang happened

isValid

public boolean isValid(UserContext usercontext)
                throws SecurityException

The method returns wether the UserContext has become invalid for some reason (change in security config?)

Parameters:

usercontext - The UserContext of which we want to know the rights

Returns:

true when valid, otherwise false

Throws:

SecurityException - When something strange happened