Package org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth

package org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth

Support for "pre-authenticated" scenarios, where Spring Security assumes the incoming request has already been authenticated by some externally configured system.

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.springframework.security.web.authentication	Authentication processing mechanisms, which respond to the submission of authentication credentials using various protocols (eg BASIC, CAS, form login etc).
org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth.j2ee	Pre-authentication support for container-authenticated requests.
org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth.websphere	Websphere-specific pre-authentication classes.
org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth.x509	X.509 client certificate authentication support.

Class	Description
AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter	Base class for processing filters that handle pre-authenticated authentication requests, where it is assumed that the principal has already been authenticated by an external system.
PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider	Processes a pre-authenticated authentication request.
PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationToken	Authentication implementation for pre-authenticated authentication.
PreAuthenticatedCredentialsNotFoundException
PreAuthenticatedGrantedAuthoritiesUserDetailsService	This AuthenticationUserDetailsService implementation creates a UserDetails object based solely on the information contained in the given PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationToken.
PreAuthenticatedGrantedAuthoritiesWebAuthenticationDetails	This WebAuthenticationDetails implementation allows for storing a list of pre-authenticated Granted Authorities.
RequestAttributeAuthenticationFilter	A simple pre-authenticated filter which obtains the username from request attributes, for use with SSO systems such as Stanford WebAuth or Shibboleth.
RequestHeaderAuthenticationFilter	A simple pre-authenticated filter which obtains the username from a request header, for use with systems such as CA Siteminder.