org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication

Interface AlfrescoSecureContext

All Superinterfaces:

net.sf.acegisecurity.context.Context, net.sf.acegisecurity.context.security.SecureContext, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AlfrescoSecureContextImpl

public interface AlfrescoSecureContext
extends net.sf.acegisecurity.context.security.SecureContext

Extensions for the Alfresco security context. This is based on the Linux model and supports real, effective and stored authorities The real authority is used for auditing and reporting who the user is etc. The effective authority is used for permission checks. RunAs support leaves the real authority and changes only the effective authority That means "special" code can run code as system but still be audited as Joe In the future scrips etc can support a setUId flag and run as the owner of the script. If the script chooses to do this .... A method invocation could do the same (after entry security checks) TODO: extent runAs to take a nodeRef context - it can then set the stored atc and set this as effective if required.

Author:

andyh

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication	getEffectiveAuthentication() Get the effective authentication - used for permission checks
net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication	getRealAuthentication() Get the real authenticaiton - used for auditing and everything else
void	setEffectiveAuthentication(net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication effictiveAuthentication) Set the effective authentication held by the context
void	setRealAuthentication(net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication realAuthentication) Set the real authentication held by the context

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.acegisecurity.context.security.SecureContext

getAuthentication, setAuthentication

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.acegisecurity.context.Context

validate

Method Detail

getEffectiveAuthentication

net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication getEffectiveAuthentication()

Get the effective authentication - used for permission checks

Returns:

Authentication

getRealAuthentication

net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication getRealAuthentication()

Get the real authenticaiton - used for auditing and everything else

Returns:

Authentication

setEffectiveAuthentication

void setEffectiveAuthentication(net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication effictiveAuthentication)

Set the effective authentication held by the context

Parameters:

effictiveAuthentication - Authentication

setRealAuthentication

void setRealAuthentication(net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication realAuthentication)

Set the real authentication held by the context

Parameters:

realAuthentication - Authentication