com.sibvisions.rad.server.security
Interface ISecurityManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSecurityManager, DBSecurityManager, NtlmDBSecurityManager, XmlSecurityManager

public interface ISecurityManager

The ISecurityManager has methods to check the access of a user to a special application.

Method Summary

void	changePassword(ISession pSession) Changes the password for a user.
IAccessController	getAccessController(ISession pSession) Gets the access controller for a session.
void	logout(ISession pSession) Performs a manual or automatic logout.
void	release() Releases all used resources.
void	validateAuthentication(ISession pSession) Validates if a session has valid credentials to access an application.

Method Detail

validateAuthentication

void validateAuthentication(ISession pSession)
                            throws Exception

Validates if a session has valid credentials to access an application.

Parameters:

pSession - the session which needs access

Throws:

Exception - if the access is denied (invalid username or password, password needs to be changed, ...)

changePassword

void changePassword(ISession pSession)
                    throws Exception

Changes the password for a user.

Parameters:

pSession - the session which wants to change the password

Throws:

Exception - if it's not possible to change the password

logout

void logout(ISession pSession)

Performs a manual or automatic logout.

Parameters:

pSession - the session which performs the logout

getAccessController

IAccessController getAccessController(ISession pSession)
                                      throws Exception

Gets the access controller for a session. The controller handles the access to server side objects.

Parameters:

pSession - the session for which the access controller is needed

Returns:

the access controller or null if no access controller should be used

Throws:

Exception - if the access controller could not be created

release

void release()

Releases all used resources.