Package org.dspace.authenticate

End-user authentication manager, interface and implementations.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AuthenticationMethod	Implement this interface to participate in the stackable authentication mechanism.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AuthenticationServiceImpl	Access point for the stackable authentication methods.
IPAuthentication	Adds users to special groups based on IP address.
IPMatcher	Quickly tests whether a given IP address matches an IP range.
LDAPAuthentication	This combined LDAP authentication method supersedes both the 'LDAPAuthentication' and the 'LDAPHierarchicalAuthentication' methods.
PasswordAuthentication	A stackable authentication method based on the DSpace internal "EPerson" database.
ShibAuthentication	Shibboleth authentication for DSpace Shibboleth is a distributed authentication system for securely authenticating users and passing attributes about the user from one or more identity providers.
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

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

Package org.dspace.authenticate Description

End-user authentication manager, interface and implementations.