edu.vt.middleware.ldap.auth.handler

Interface AuthorizationHandler

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public interface AuthorizationHandler

AuthorizationHandler provides processing of authorization queries after authentication has succeeded.

Version:

$Revision: 1330 $

Author:

Middleware Services

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	process(AuthenticationCriteria ac, LdapContext ctx) Process an authorization after an ldap authentication.

Method Detail

process

void process(AuthenticationCriteria ac,
           LdapContext ctx)
             throws NamingException

Process an authorization after an ldap authentication. The supplied LdapContext should not be closed in this method. Implementations should throw AuthorizationException to indicate an authorization failure.

Parameters:

ac - AuthenticationCriteria used to perform the authentication

ctx - LdapContext authenticated context used to perform the bind

Throws:

AuthorizationException - if authorization fails

NamingException - if an LDAP error occurs