edu.vt.middleware.ldap.auth.handler
Class BindAuthenticationHandler

java.lang.Object
  edu.vt.middleware.ldap.auth.handler.AbstractAuthenticationHandler
      edu.vt.middleware.ldap.auth.handler.BindAuthenticationHandler

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuthenticationHandler

public class BindAuthenticationHandler
extends AbstractAuthenticationHandler

BindAuthenticationHandler provides an LDAP authentication implementation that leverages the LDAP bind operation.

Version:

$Revision: 1330 $

Author:

Middleware Services

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.ldap.auth.handler.AbstractAuthenticationHandler

config, logger

Constructor Summary

BindAuthenticationHandler()
Default constructor.

BindAuthenticationHandler(AuthenticatorConfig ac)
Creates a new BindAuthenticationHandler with the supplied authenticator config.

Method Summary

void	authenticate(ConnectionHandler ch, AuthenticationCriteria ac) Perform an ldap authentication. Implementations should throw AuthenticationException to indicate an authentication failure. The resulting LdapContext can be retrieved from the connection handler if it is needed.
BindAuthenticationHandler	newInstance() Returns a separate instance of this authentication handler.

Methods inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.ldap.auth.handler.AbstractAuthenticationHandler

setAuthenticatorConfig

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BindAuthenticationHandler

public BindAuthenticationHandler()

Default constructor.

BindAuthenticationHandler

public BindAuthenticationHandler(AuthenticatorConfig ac)

Creates a new BindAuthenticationHandler with the supplied authenticator config.

Parameters:

ac - authenticator config

Method Detail

authenticate

public void authenticate(ConnectionHandler ch,
                         AuthenticationCriteria ac)
                  throws NamingException

Perform an ldap authentication. Implementations should throw AuthenticationException to indicate an authentication failure. The resulting LdapContext can be retrieved from the connection handler if it is needed.

Specified by:

authenticate in interface AuthenticationHandler

Specified by:

authenticate in class AbstractAuthenticationHandler

Parameters:

ch - ConnectionHandler to communicate with the LDAP

ac - AuthenticationCriteria to perform the authentication with

Throws:

NamingException - if an LDAP error occurs

newInstance

public BindAuthenticationHandler newInstance()

Returns a separate instance of this authentication handler.

Specified by:

newInstance in interface AuthenticationHandler

Specified by:

newInstance in class AbstractAuthenticationHandler

Returns:

authentication handler