Class Summary |
AuthPermission |
This class is for authentication permissions. |
Policy |
This is an abstract class for representing the system policy for
Subject-based authorization. |
PrivateCredentialPermission |
This class is used to protect access to private Credentials
belonging to a particular Subject . |
Subject |
A Subject represents a grouping of related information
for a single entity, such as a person. |
SubjectDomainCombiner |
A SubjectDomainCombiner updates the
ProtectionDomains affiliated with an AccessControlContext
with the relevant Subject-based Permissions configured in the
java.security.auth.Policy . |
This package provides a framework for authentication and
authorization. The framework allows
authentication to be performed in pluggable fashion. Different
authentication modules can be plugged under an application without
requiring modifications to the application itself. The
authorization component allows specification of access controls
based on code location, code signers and code executors
(Subjects).