Package javax.security.auth.login

package javax.security.auth.login

This package provides a pluggable authentication framework.

Package Specification

Java Security Standard Algorithm Names Specification

Since:: 1.4

java.security.jgss

Module	Package	Description
javax.security.auth	This package provides a framework for authentication and authorization.
javax.security.auth.callback	This package provides the classes necessary for services to interact with applications in order to retrieve information (authentication data including usernames or passwords, for example) or to display information (error and warning messages, for example).
javax.security.auth.kerberos	This package contains utility classes related to the Kerberos network authentication protocol.
javax.security.auth.spi	This package provides the interface to be used for implementing pluggable authentication modules.
javax.security.auth.x500	This package contains the classes that should be used to store X500 Principal and X500 Private Credentials in a Subject.

Class	Description
AccountException	A generic account exception.
AccountExpiredException	Signals that a user account has expired.
AccountLockedException	Signals that an account was locked.
AccountNotFoundException	Signals that an account was not found.
AppConfigurationEntry	This class represents a single `LoginModule` entry configured for the application specified in the `getAppConfigurationEntry(String appName)` method in the `Configuration` class.
AppConfigurationEntry.LoginModuleControlFlag	This class represents whether a `LoginModule` is REQUIRED, REQUISITE, SUFFICIENT or OPTIONAL.
Configuration	A Configuration object is responsible for specifying which LoginModules should be used for a particular application, and in what order the LoginModules should be invoked.
Configuration.Parameters	This represents a marker interface for Configuration parameters.
ConfigurationSpi	This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI) for the `Configuration` class.
CredentialException	A generic credential exception.
CredentialExpiredException	Signals that a `Credential` has expired.
CredentialNotFoundException	Signals that a credential was not found.
FailedLoginException	Signals that user authentication failed.
LoginContext	The `LoginContext` class describes the basic methods used to authenticate Subjects and provides a way to develop an application independent of the underlying authentication technology.
LoginException	This is the basic login exception.

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