org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication
Class SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuthenticationSource

public class SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource
extends Object
implements AuthenticationSource

An AuthenticationSource to retrieve authentication information stored in Spring Security's SecurityContextHolder.

This is a copy of Spring LDAP's AcegiAuthenticationSource, updated for use with Spring Security 2.0.

Since:

2.0

Constructor Summary

SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource()

Method Summary

String	getCredentials()
String	getPrincipal() Get the principals of the logged in user, in this case the distinguished name.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource

public SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource()

Method Detail

getPrincipal

public String getPrincipal()

Get the principals of the logged in user, in this case the distinguished name.

Specified by:

getPrincipal in interface AuthenticationSource

Returns:

the distinguished name of the logged in user.

getCredentials

public String getCredentials()

Specified by:

getCredentials in interface AuthenticationSource

See Also:

AuthenticationSource.getCredentials()