Package org.dspace.authenticate

End-user authentication manager, interface and implementations.

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Description

Interface Summary

AuthenticationMethod

Implement this interface to participate in the stackable authentication mechanism.

Class Summary

AuthenticationManager	Access point for the stackable authentication methods.
IPAuthentication	Adds users to special groups based on IP address.
IPMatcher	Quickly tests whether a given IPv4 4-byte address matches an IP range.
LDAPAuthentication	Authentication module to authenticate against a flat LDAP tree where all users are in the same unit.
LDAPHierarchicalAuthentication	This LDAP authentication method is more complex than the simple 'LDAPAuthentication' in that it allows authentication against structured hierarchical LDAP trees of users.
PasswordAuthentication	A stackable authentication method based on the DSpace internal "EPerson" database.
ShibAuthentication	Shibboleth authentication for DSpace, tested on Shibboleth 1.3.x and Shibboleth 2.x.
X509Authentication	Implicit authentication method that gets credentials from the X.509 client certificate supplied by the HTTPS client when connecting to this server.

Exception Summary

IPMatcherException

Thrown when there is a problem parsing an IP matcher specification.

Package org.dspace.authenticate Description

End-user authentication manager, interface and implementations.