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Interface Summary Interface Description GroupSet Represents a set of groups.MessageDigester Utility class that encapsulates a message digest method.NameValidator Validator of names.UserAccessor Interface for accessing the currently logged in user.UserAdministration Interface for user administration.UserSet Represents a set of users. -
Class Summary Class Description AbstractUserSet User set base class.Group Represents a group.InMemoryGroupSet In-memory group set implementation.InMemoryUserSet In-memory user set.JaasUserAccessor Implementation of the user accessor that retrieves user information from JAAS.Md5HexMessageDigester MD5 Hex encoder.RegexpNameValidator Validation of names based on a regular expression.User Represents a user.UserAdminInitializer User administration initializer.UserAdministrationImpl Administration of users and groups. -
Enum Summary Enum Description UserMgtException.Reason Possible causes for the exception. -
Exception Summary Exception Description UserMgtException User management exception.
Package org.wamblee.security.authentication Description
This package provides support for managing users and their authentication.
The user of the package interacts with the
At construction of the userset, a password validator is required as well as a digest algorithm to compute a digest of the password to store in the database and also to validate users against.
Finally, there is the basic model for users and groups that is used under the covers. As a user of the security library these objects will typically not be used.
Supported use cases
in particular, it supports the following use cases:- Dynamically manage users and groups from an application.
- Authenticate users
- Store users and groups in a database.
The user of the package interacts with the
UserAdministration interface for the following tasks:
- Adding users and removing users
- Adding users to groups and removing them from groups
- Renaming users and groups
- Modifying the user's password
- Populate with initial users upon first startup
UserAdminInitializer can be used to automatically initialize the user administration with
initial users and groups when there are no users defined yet.
To use the user administration interface, several implementation classes must be wired together. This is
explained below.
There is one implementation UserAdministrationImpl of this interface that must be constructed
with a UserSet and GroupSet implementation, together with two validators: one for
user names and another for group names.
For user and groups sets there are two implementations, one inmemory and another with database persistence.
Typically the one with database persistence is used but for testing other code, the inmemory implementation
can be used.
At construction of the userset, a password validator is required as well as a digest algorithm to compute a digest of the password to store in the database and also to validate users against.
Finally, there is the basic model for users and groups that is used under the covers. As a user of the security library these objects will typically not be used.