org.jasig.portal.security.provider
Class SimpleSecurityContext

java.lang.Object
  org.jasig.portal.security.provider.ChainingSecurityContext
      org.jasig.portal.security.provider.SimpleSecurityContext

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, ISecurityContext

public class SimpleSecurityContext
extends ChainingSecurityContext
implements ISecurityContext

This is an implementation of a SecurityContext that checks a user's credentials against an MD5 hashed password entry.

Version:

$Revision: 1.25 $

Author:

Andrew Newman, newman@yale.edu

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.jasig.portal.security.provider.ChainingSecurityContext

ChainingSecurityContext.ChainingAdditionalDescriptor, ChainingSecurityContext.ChainingOpaqueCredentials, ChainingSecurityContext.ChainingPrincipal

Field Summary

private static org.apache.commons.logging.Log	log
private int	SIMPLESECURITYAUTHTYPE

Fields inherited from class org.jasig.portal.security.provider.ChainingSecurityContext

isauth, myAdditionalDescriptor, myOpaqueCredentials, myOrder, myPrincipal, mySubContexts, stopWhenAuthenticated

Constructor Summary

SimpleSecurityContext()

Method Summary

void	authenticate() Authenticate user.
static byte[]	decode(java.lang.String base64)
int	getAuthType() Returns the canonical authentication type for this flavor of authentication.
protected static int	getValue(char c)

Methods inherited from class org.jasig.portal.security.provider.ChainingSecurityContext

addSubContext, doesSubContextExist, getAdditionalDescriptor, getOpaqueCredentials, getOpaqueCredentialsInstance, getPrincipal, getPrincipalInstance, getSubContext, getSubContextNames, getSubContexts, isAuthenticated

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.jasig.portal.security.ISecurityContext

addSubContext, getAdditionalDescriptor, getOpaqueCredentials, getOpaqueCredentialsInstance, getPrincipal, getPrincipalInstance, getSubContext, getSubContextNames, getSubContexts, isAuthenticated

Field Detail

log

private static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log log

SIMPLESECURITYAUTHTYPE

private final int SIMPLESECURITYAUTHTYPE

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

SimpleSecurityContext

SimpleSecurityContext()

Method Detail

getAuthType

public int getAuthType()

Description copied from interface: ISecurityContext

Returns the canonical authentication type for this flavor of authentication. Each value returned should be either a globally registered auth flavor or a local variant.

Specified by:

getAuthType in interface ISecurityContext

Returns:

The unique authentication value identifier. Values with the high order 16 bits clear are local (0x0000 - 0x00FF) where values with the high order 16 bits set (0xFF00 - 0xFFFF are foundation types distributed by JASIG. All other should be registered and globally unique.

authenticate

public void authenticate()
                  throws PortalSecurityException

Authenticate user.

Specified by:

authenticate in interface ISecurityContext

Overrides:

authenticate in class ChainingSecurityContext

Throws:

PortalSecurityException

See Also:

ISecurityContext.getPrincipalInstance(), ISecurityContext.getOpaqueCredentialsInstance()

decode

public static byte[] decode(java.lang.String base64)

getValue

protected static int getValue(char c)