com.googlecode.fascinator.common
Class LdapAuthentication

java.lang.Object
  com.googlecode.fascinator.common.LdapAuthentication

public class LdapAuthentication
extends Object

Very simple LDAP authentication

Author:

Oliver Lucido

Constructor Summary

LdapAuthentication(String baseUrl, String baseDn)
Creates an LDAP authenticator for the specified server and base DN, using the default identifier attribute "uid"

LdapAuthentication(String baseUrl, String baseDn, String idAttr)
Creates an LDAP authenticator for the specified server, base DN and identifier attribute

Method Summary

boolean

authenticate(String username, String password) Attempts to authenticate user credentials with the LDAP server

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

LdapAuthentication

public LdapAuthentication(String baseUrl,
                          String baseDn)

Creates an LDAP authenticator for the specified server and base DN, using the default identifier attribute "uid"

Parameters:

baseUrl - LDAP server URL

baseDn - LDAP base DN

LdapAuthentication

public LdapAuthentication(String baseUrl,
                          String baseDn,
                          String idAttr)

Creates an LDAP authenticator for the specified server, base DN and identifier attribute

Parameters:

baseUrl - LDAP server URL

baseDn - LDAP base DN

idAttr - LDAP user identifier attribute

Method Detail

authenticate

public boolean authenticate(String username,
                            String password)

Attempts to authenticate user credentials with the LDAP server

Parameters:

username - a username

password - a password

Returns:

true if authentication was successful, false otherwise