Package com.logicaldoc.core.security.authentication

The pluggable authentication mechanism. Key class here is the AuthenticationChain that handle a sequence of configured Authenticator

Implementations of the Authenticator takes care of authenticating the user using a specific technology

A set of exceptions is defined in order to manifest the reason of a failed authentication

Since:

1.0

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Authenticator	Implementations of this interface must provide authentication of a user against a defined source.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractAuthenticator	A place to put common methods of the authenticators
AuthenticationChain	This authentication component implements a chain of possible authentication sources that will be invoked sequentially.
DefaultAuthenticator	This is the basic authentication mechanism, that searches for the user in the LogicalDOC database.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
AccountDisabledException	Raised when the account exists but it is disabled
AccountExpiredException	Raised when the account is expired
AccountInactiveException	Raised when the account is interpreted as inactive because it was not interacting since a lot of days
AccountNotFoundException	Raised when the specified user was not found
AuthenticationException	A generic exception during the authentication process
InvalidSessionException	Raised when a session is not valid
IPBlockedException	Raised when the remote client is in the black list
OutsideWorkingTimeException	Raised when the user is trying to enter outside the working time
PasswordAlreadyUsedException	Raised when you try to change password that was already used
PasswordExpiredException	Raised when the password has expired
PasswordWeakException	Raised when you try to change a password that is too weak
UsernameBlockedException	Raised when the remote client is in the black list
WrongPasswordException	Raised when given password is not correct