com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm

Interface User

All Superinterfaces:

Principal

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileRealmUser

public interface User
extends Principal

All users are principals ... perhaps in the native OS, perhaps not.

Users always have authentication information, which is used to validate a user's proferred credentials. Different kinds of realms use different kinds of authentication information. For example, realms could use X.509 public key certificates, shared passphrases, encrypted passwords, smart cards, or biometric data to figure out if the user's credentials are valid.

Users typically have attributes that identify privileges granted/possesed by the user.

Author:

Harish Prabandham

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	getAttribute(String name) Returns the single requested attribute for the user.
Enumeration	getAttributeNames() Returns an enumeration of the keys for the attributes supported for this user.
Realm	getRealm() Returns the realm with which this user is associated.

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Principal

equals, getName, hashCode, implies, toString

Method Detail

getRealm

Realm getRealm()
        throws NoSuchRealmException

Returns the realm with which this user is associated.

Throws:

NoSuchRealmException

getAttribute

Object getAttribute(String name)

Returns the single requested attribute for the user.

Parameters:

name - string identifying the attribute.

Returns:

value of that attribute, or null if no value has been defined

getAttributeNames

Enumeration getAttributeNames()

Returns an enumeration of the keys for the attributes supported for this user.