org.springframework.security.providers.ldap.authenticator

Class PasswordComparisonAuthenticator

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.security.providers.ldap.authenticator.AbstractLdapAuthenticator

org.springframework.security.providers.ldap.authenticator.PasswordComparisonAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean, org.springframework.context.MessageSourceAware, LdapAuthenticator

public final class PasswordComparisonAuthenticator
extends AbstractLdapAuthenticator

An LdapAuthenticator which compares the login password with the value stored in the directory using a remote LDAP "compare" operation.

If passwords are stored in digest form in the repository, then a suitable PasswordEncoder implementation must be supplied. By default, passwords are encoded using the LdapShaPasswordEncoder.

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Luke Taylor

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.security.providers.ldap.authenticator.AbstractLdapAuthenticator

messages

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PasswordComparisonAuthenticator(org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource contextSource)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.springframework.ldap.core.DirContextOperations	authenticate(Authentication authentication) Authenticates as a user and obtains additional user information from the directory.
void	setPasswordAttributeName(java.lang.String passwordAttribute)
void	setPasswordEncoder(PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder)

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.security.providers.ldap.authenticator.AbstractLdapAuthenticator

afterPropertiesSet, getContextSource, getUserAttributes, getUserDns, getUserSearch, setMessageSource, setUserAttributes, setUserDnPatterns, setUserSearch

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PasswordComparisonAuthenticator

public PasswordComparisonAuthenticator(org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource contextSource)

Method Detail

authenticate

public org.springframework.ldap.core.DirContextOperations authenticate(Authentication authentication)

Description copied from interface: LdapAuthenticator

Authenticates as a user and obtains additional user information from the directory.

Returns:

the details of the successfully authenticated user.

setPasswordAttributeName

public void setPasswordAttributeName(java.lang.String passwordAttribute)

setPasswordEncoder

public void setPasswordEncoder(PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder)