org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication
Class BindAuthenticator

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.AbstractLdapAuthenticator
      org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.BindAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

InitializingBean, MessageSourceAware, LdapAuthenticator

public class BindAuthenticator
extends AbstractLdapAuthenticator

An authenticator which binds as a user.

Version:

$Id: BindAuthenticator.java 3823 2009-08-19 21:34:05Z ltaylor $

Author:

Luke Taylor

See Also:

AbstractLdapAuthenticator

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.AbstractLdapAuthenticator

messages

Constructor Summary

BindAuthenticator(org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource contextSource)
Create an initialized instance using the BaseLdapPathContextSource provided.

Method Summary

org.springframework.ldap.core.DirContextOperations	authenticate(Authentication authentication) Authenticates as a user and obtains additional user information from the directory.
protected void	handleBindException(String userDn, String username, Throwable cause) Allows subclasses to inspect the exception thrown by an attempt to bind with a particular DN.

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.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

BindAuthenticator

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

Create an initialized instance using the BaseLdapPathContextSource provided.

Parameters:

contextSource - the BaseLdapPathContextSource instance against which bind operations will be performed.

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.

handleBindException

protected void handleBindException(String userDn,
                                   String username,
                                   Throwable cause)

Allows subclasses to inspect the exception thrown by an attempt to bind with a particular DN. The default implementation just reports the failure to the debug logger.