| J. Duke | 319a3b9 | 2007-12-01 00:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | /* |
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| 25 | |
| 26 | package com.sun.security.jgss; |
| 27 | |
| 28 | import javax.security.auth.Subject; |
| 29 | import org.ietf.jgss.GSSName; |
| 30 | import org.ietf.jgss.GSSCredential; |
| 31 | |
| 32 | /** |
| 33 | * GSS-API Utilities for using in conjunction with Sun Microsystem's |
| 34 | * implementation of Java GSS-API. |
| 35 | */ |
| 36 | public class GSSUtil { |
| 37 | |
| 38 | /** |
| 39 | * Use this method to convert a GSSName and GSSCredential into a |
| 40 | * Subject. Typically this would be done by a server that wants to |
| 41 | * impersonate a client thread at the Java level by setting a client |
| 42 | * Subject in the current access control context. If the server is merely |
| 43 | * interested in using a principal based policy in its local JVM, then |
| 44 | * it only needs to provide the GSSName of the client. |
| 45 | * |
| 46 | * The elements from the GSSName are placed in the principals set of this |
| 47 | * Subject and those from the GSSCredential are placed in the private |
| 48 | * credentials set of the Subject. Any Kerberos specific elements that |
| 49 | * are added to the subject will be instances of the standard Kerberos |
| 50 | * implementation classes defined in javax.security.auth.kerberos. |
| 51 | * |
| 52 | * @return a Subject with the entries that contain elements from the |
| 53 | * given GSSName and GSSCredential. |
| 54 | * |
| 55 | * @param principals a GSSName containing one or more mechanism specific |
| 56 | * representations of the same entity. These mechanism specific |
| 57 | * representations will be populated in the returned Subject's principal |
| 58 | * set. |
| 59 | * |
| 60 | * @param credentials a GSSCredential containing one or more mechanism |
| 61 | * specific credentials for the same entity. These mechanism specific |
| 62 | * credentials will be populated in the returned Subject's private |
| 63 | * credential set. Passing in a value of null will imply that the private |
| 64 | * credential set should be left empty. |
| 65 | */ |
| 66 | public static Subject createSubject(GSSName principals, |
| 67 | GSSCredential credentials) { |
| 68 | |
| 69 | return sun.security.jgss.GSSUtil.getSubject(principals, |
| 70 | credentials); |
| 71 | } |
| 72 | } |