Package org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet

Class RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory

java.lang.Object

org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.ServletAuthenticatorFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

PublicApiAuthenticatorFactory

public class RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory
extends BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

Authenticator to provide Remote User based Header authentication dropping back to Basic Auth otherwise. Statelessly authenticating via a secure header now does not require a Session so can be used with request-level load balancers which was not previously possible.

Since:

5.1

Author:

Kevin Roast

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
class	RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory.RemoteUserAuthenticator	Remote User authenticator - adds header authentication onto Basic Auth.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory.BasicHttpAuthenticator

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationComponent	authenticationComponent
protected org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.external.RemoteUserMapper	remoteUserMapper

Fields inherited from class org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

authenticationService, listener

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.Authenticator	create(org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletRequest req, org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletResponse res)
void	setAuthenticationComponent(org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationComponent authenticationComponent)
void	setRemoteUserMapper(org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.external.RemoteUserMapper remoteUserMapper)

Methods inherited from class org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

setAuthenticationListener, setAuthenticationService

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

remoteUserMapper

protected org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.external.RemoteUserMapper remoteUserMapper

authenticationComponent

protected org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationComponent authenticationComponent

Constructor Detail

RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory

public RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory()

Method Detail

setRemoteUserMapper

public void setRemoteUserMapper(org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.external.RemoteUserMapper remoteUserMapper)

setAuthenticationComponent

public void setAuthenticationComponent(org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationComponent authenticationComponent)

create

public org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.Authenticator create(org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletRequest req,
                                                                      org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletResponse res)

Specified by:

create in interface org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.ServletAuthenticatorFactory

Overrides:

create in class BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory