com.novell.ldap
Class LDAPAuthProvider

java.lang.Object
  com.novell.ldap.LDAPAuthProvider

public class LDAPAuthProvider

extends java.lang.Object

An implementation of LDAPAuthHandler must be able to provide an LDAPAuthProvider object at the time of a referral. The class encapsulates information that is used by the client for authentication when following referrals automatically.

See Also:

LDAPAuthHandler, LDAPBindHandler, LDAPConstraints.setReferralFollowing(boolean)

Constructor Summary

LDAPAuthProvider(java.lang.String dn, byte[] password)
Constructs information that is used by the client for authentication when following referrals automatically.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getDN() Returns the distinguished name to be used for authentication on automatic referral following.
byte[]	getPassword() Returns the password to be used for authentication on automatic referral following.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LDAPAuthProvider

public LDAPAuthProvider(java.lang.String dn,
                        byte[] password)

Constructs information that is used by the client for authentication when following referrals automatically.

Parameters:

dn - The distinguished name to use when authenticating to a server.

password - The password to use when authenticating to a server.

Method Detail

getDN

public java.lang.String getDN()

Returns the distinguished name to be used for authentication on automatic referral following.

Returns:

The distinguished name from the object.

getPassword

public byte[] getPassword()

Returns the password to be used for authentication on automatic referral following.

Returns:

The byte[] value (UTF-8) of the password from the object.