com.opensymphony.user.provider
Interface CredentialsProvider

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable, UserProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

CastorCredentialsProvider, EJBCredentialsProvider, FileCredentialsProvider, HibernateCredentialsProvider, JDBCCredentialsProvider, LDAPCredentialsProvider, MemoryCredentialsProvider, OFBizCredentialsProvider, OrionCredentialsProvider, WeblogicCredentialsProvider

public interface CredentialsProvider

extends UserProvider

The CredentialsProvider is a UserProvider specifically used for storing details for authenticating Users. All Entities referred to are of type User, and all Entity.Accessor objects can be safely cast to User.Accessor

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $

Author:

Joe Walnes

See Also:

UserProvider, User

Method Summary

boolean	authenticate(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String password) Check password supplied matches that of User.
boolean	changePassword(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String password) Change password of user.

Methods inherited from interface com.opensymphony.user.provider.UserProvider

create, flushCaches, handles, init, list, load, remove, store

Method Detail

authenticate

public boolean authenticate(java.lang.String name,
                            java.lang.String password)

Check password supplied matches that of User.

changePassword

public boolean changePassword(java.lang.String name,
                              java.lang.String password)

Change password of user.