info.magnolia.cms.security
Interface UserManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

DelegatingUserManager, ExternalUserManager, HierarchicalUserManager, MgnlUserManager, SystemUserManager

public interface UserManager

Used to get the current or other User objects.

Version:

$Revision: 32667 $ ($Author: gjoseph $)

Author:

philipp

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	ANONYMOUS_USER Anonymous user
static java.lang.String	SYSTEM_PSWD Magnolia system default password
static java.lang.String	SYSTEM_USER Magnolia system user.

Method Summary

void	changePassword(User user, java.lang.String newPassword)
User	createUser(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String pw) Creates a user without security restrictions
java.util.Collection<User>	getAllUsers() Get all users.
User	getAnonymousUser() Get Anonymous user, this user must always exist in magnolia repository.
User	getSystemUser() Get system user, this user must always exist in magnolia repository.
User	getUser(java.lang.String name) Find a specific user.
User	getUser(javax.security.auth.Subject subject) Initialize new user using JAAS authenticated/authorized subject

Field Detail

SYSTEM_USER

static final java.lang.String SYSTEM_USER

Magnolia system user.

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Constant Field Values

SYSTEM_PSWD

static final java.lang.String SYSTEM_PSWD

Magnolia system default password

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Constant Field Values

ANONYMOUS_USER

static final java.lang.String ANONYMOUS_USER

Anonymous user

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getUser

User getUser(java.lang.String name)
             throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Find a specific user. Not all implementations will support this method.

Parameters:

name - the name of the user

Returns:

the user object

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

getUser

User getUser(javax.security.auth.Subject subject)
             throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Initialize new user using JAAS authenticated/authorized subject

Parameters:

subject -

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

getSystemUser

User getSystemUser()
                   throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Get system user, this user must always exist in magnolia repository.

Returns:

system user

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

getAnonymousUser

User getAnonymousUser()
                      throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Get Anonymous user, this user must always exist in magnolia repository.

Returns:

anonymous user

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

getAllUsers

java.util.Collection<User> getAllUsers()
                                       throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Get all users.

Returns:

collection of User objects

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

createUser

User createUser(java.lang.String name,
                java.lang.String pw)
                throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Creates a user without security restrictions

Parameters:

name - user name

pw - password

Returns:

the new user object

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

changePassword

void changePassword(User user,
                    java.lang.String newPassword)
                    throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException