org.figure8.join.services.security
Class CryptPasswordEncoder

java.lang.Object
  org.figure8.join.services.security.CryptPasswordEncoder

All Implemented Interfaces:

PasswordEncoder

public class CryptPasswordEncoder
extends java.lang.Object
implements PasswordEncoder

Implementation of PasswordChecker using the standard Unix encryption mechanism for encoding and validating passwords.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Laurent Broudoux

Constructor Summary

CryptPasswordEncoder()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	encodePassword(java.lang.String userId, java.lang.String clearPassword, java.lang.Object[] arguments) A hook that allows implementation to provide custom password encoding method using a set of arguments.
boolean	validatePassword(java.lang.String userId, java.lang.String inputPassword, java.lang.String expectedPassword) A hook that allows implementation to change the validation of the input password against the expected password.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CryptPasswordEncoder

public CryptPasswordEncoder()

Method Detail

encodePassword

public java.lang.String encodePassword(java.lang.String userId,
                                       java.lang.String clearPassword,
                                       java.lang.Object[] arguments)

A hook that allows implementation to provide custom password encoding method using a set of arguments.

Specified by:

encodePassword in interface PasswordEncoder

Parameters:

userId - The user identifier

clearPassword - The non encoded password of the user

arguments - Arguments for encoding process

Returns:

the encoded password.

validatePassword

public boolean validatePassword(java.lang.String userId,
                                java.lang.String inputPassword,
                                java.lang.String expectedPassword)

A hook that allows implementation to change the validation of the input password against the expected password.

Specified by:

validatePassword in interface PasswordEncoder

Parameters:

userId - The user identifier

inputPassword - The password provided by the user

expectedPassword - The real user's pasword

Returns:

true if the inputPassword is valid, false otherwise.