SK.gnome.dwarf.auth.login
Class CleartextPasswordEncoder

java.lang.Object
  SK.gnome.dwarf.auth.login.CleartextPasswordEncoder

All Implemented Interfaces:

PasswordEncoder

public final class CleartextPasswordEncoder

extends java.lang.Object

implements PasswordEncoder

Password encoder for the unencoded passwords.

This class encodes a user password by simply converting the given password argument to a string. It does not perform any particular encoding. Use it with a great caution since the cleartext passwords may be potentionally dangerous!

This class may be used to encode the ASCII-based passwords only.

Constructor Summary

CleartextPasswordEncoder()

Method Summary

boolean	compare(java.lang.String encoded, char[] plain) Compares two passwords.
java.lang.String	encode(char[] password) Encodes a single password.
static java.lang.String	encodePassword(char[] password) Encodes a single password.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CleartextPasswordEncoder

public CleartextPasswordEncoder()

Method Detail

encodePassword

public static java.lang.String encodePassword(char[] password)

Encodes a single password.

Parameters:

password - the password

Returns:

the password

encode

public java.lang.String encode(char[] password)

Description copied from interface: PasswordEncoder

Encodes a single password.

Note that two subsequent calls to this method with the same argument may result in two different strings returned. Use the compare method therefore for comparing the encoded password with its plain format.

Specified by:

encode in interface PasswordEncoder

Parameters:

password - the password

Returns:

the encoded password

compare

public boolean compare(java.lang.String encoded,
                       char[] plain)

Description copied from interface: PasswordEncoder

Compares two passwords.

Specified by:

compare in interface PasswordEncoder

Parameters:

encoded - the encoded password

plain - the plain (non-encoded) password

Returns:

true if the passwords are equal