Class AuthPermission

A permission controlling access to authentication service. The actions field of auth permission objects is ignored; the whole of the permission is defined by the target.

The authentication permission targets recognized are:

doAs

Allows access to the {@link Subject#doAs(javax.security.auth.Subject java.security.PrivilegedAction)} methods.

doAsPrivileged

Allows access to the {@link Subject#doAsPrivileged(javax.security.auth.Subject, java.security.PrivilegedAction, java.security.AccessControlContext)} methods.

getSubject

Allows access to the {@link Subject} associated with a thread.

getSubjectFromDomainCombiner

Allows access to the {@link Subject} associated with a {@link SubjectDomainCombiner}.

setReadOnly

Allows a {@link Subject} to be marked as read-only.

modifyPrincipals

Allows the set of principals of a subject to be modified.

modifyPublicCredentials

Allows the set of public credentials of a subject to be modified.

modifyPrivateCredentials

Allows the set of private credentials of a subject to be modified.

refreshCredential

Allows a {@link Refreshable} credential to be refreshed.

destroyCredential

Allows a {@link Destroyable} credential to be destroyed.

createLoginContext.name

Allows a {@link javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext} for the given name. name can also be a wildcard ('*'), which allows the creation of a context with any name.

getLoginConfiguration

Allows the system-wide login {@link javax.security.auth.login.Configuration} to be retrieved.

setLoginConfiguration

Allows the system-wide login {@link javax.security.auth.login.Configuration} to be set.

refreshLoginConfiguration

Allows the system-wide login {@link javax.security.auth.login.Configuration} to be refreshed.