com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.pam

Class PamRealm

java.lang.Object

com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.AbstractRealm

com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.AbstractStatefulRealm

com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.Realm

com.sun.enterprise.security.BaseRealm

com.sun.appserv.security.AppservRealm

com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.pam.PamRealm

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable<Realm>

@Service
public final class PamRealm
extends AppservRealm

Realm wrapper for supporting PAM based authentication for all Unix machines. The PAM realm uses the Operating System's PAM login mechanism to authenticate the applications with their OS usernames and passwords.

Author:

Nithya Subramanian

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	AUTH_TYPE Descriptive string of the authentication type of this realm.

Fields inherited from class com.sun.enterprise.security.BaseRealm

sm

Fields inherited from class com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.Realm

_logger, JAAS_CONTEXT_PARAM, RI_DEFAULT

Fields inherited from class com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.AbstractStatefulRealm

groupMapper, GROUPS_SEP, PARAM_DEFAULT_DIGEST_ALGORITHM, PARAM_GROUP_MAPPING, PARAM_GROUPS

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PamRealm()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.jvnet.libpam.UnixUser	authenticate(String username, char[] password)
String	getAuthType() Returns a short (preferably less than fifteen characters) description of the kind of authentication which is supported by this realm.
Enumeration<String>	getGroupNames(String username) Returns the name of all the groups that this user belongs to
String	getPamService() This method retrieves the PAM service stack to be used by the Realm class and Login Module uniformly
protected void	init(Properties props) Initialize a realm with some properties.

Methods inherited from class com.sun.enterprise.security.BaseRealm

addUser, addUser, getGroupNames, getUser, getUserNames, persist, refresh, removeUser, supportsUserManagement, updateUser, updateUser

Methods inherited from class com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.Realm

getDefaultInstance, getDefaultRealm, getInstance, getInstance, getRealmNames, getRealmStatsProvier, instantiate, instantiate, isValidRealm, isValidRealm, setDefaultRealm, unloadInstance, unloadInstance, updateInstance, updateInstance

Methods inherited from class com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.AbstractStatefulRealm

addAssignGroups, compareTo, getDefaultDigestAlgorithm, getJAASContext, getMappedGroupNames, getName, getProperties, getProperty, refresh, setName, setProperty, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Field Detail

AUTH_TYPE

public static final String AUTH_TYPE

Descriptive string of the authentication type of this realm.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

PamRealm

public PamRealm()

Method Detail

init

protected void init(Properties props)
             throws BadRealmException,
                    NoSuchRealmException

Description copied from class: AbstractStatefulRealm

Initialize a realm with some properties. This can be used when instantiating realms from their descriptions. This method may only be called a single time.

Overrides:

init in class AbstractStatefulRealm

Parameters:

props - initialization parameters used by this realm.

Throws:

BadRealmException - if the configuration parameters identify a corrupt realm

NoSuchRealmException - if the configuration parameters specify a realm which doesn't exist

getAuthType

public String getAuthType()

Description copied from class: AbstractRealm

Returns a short (preferably less than fifteen characters) description of the kind of authentication which is supported by this realm.

Specified by:

getAuthType in class AbstractRealm

Returns:

"pam".

getGroupNames

public Enumeration<String> getGroupNames(String username)
                                  throws NoSuchUserException

Description copied from class: AbstractRealm

Returns the name of all the groups that this user belongs to

Specified by:

getGroupNames in class AbstractRealm

Parameters:

username - name of the user in this realm whose group listing is needed.

Returns:

enumeration of group names (strings)

Throws:

NoSuchUserException

authenticate

public org.jvnet.libpam.UnixUser authenticate(String username,
                                              char[] password)

getPamService

public String getPamService()

This method retrieves the PAM service stack to be used by the Realm class and Login Module uniformly

Returns: