blackboard.platform.security.authentication
Class RDBMSAuthUtil

java.lang.Object
  blackboard.platform.security.authentication.RDBMSAuthUtil

public class RDBMSAuthUtil
extends java.lang.Object

Utility class used by classes in the authentication package. The method of use by Building Block Developers is getHashValue(String), which returns the MD5 hash of a given string, suitable for inserting into the password field in the User record.

Constructor Summary

RDBMSAuthUtil()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	getHashValue(java.lang.String input)
static void	init(ConfigurationService cfg) Standard initialization method.
static boolean	sessionCookiePersisted(java.lang.String md5SessionId)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RDBMSAuthUtil

public RDBMSAuthUtil()

Method Detail

init

public static void init(ConfigurationService cfg)

Standard initialization method.

Parameters:

props - Properties used to initialize security subsystem

getHashValue

public static java.lang.String getHashValue(java.lang.String input)

sessionCookiePersisted

public static boolean sessionCookiePersisted(java.lang.String md5SessionId)
                                      throws BbSecurityException

Throws:

BbSecurityException