org.sblim.wbem.client
Class PasswordCredential

java.lang.Object
  org.sblim.wbem.client.PasswordCredential

public class PasswordCredential

extends java.lang.Object

Provides password based credential for a user login authentication. This class must be used with the UserPrincipal interface, which contains the username and host name of the system for which the password is associeted to it.

Constructor Summary

PasswordCredential()
Constructs an object of a PasswordCredential.

PasswordCredential(char[] pPassword)
Constructs an object of a PasswordCredential with the specified password.

PasswordCredential(java.lang.String pPassword)
Deprecated. for security reason this class has been deprecated. PasswordCredential(char[] password) constructor must be used instead of this constructor.

Method Summary

void	clearUserPassword() Clears the user password from memory and resets the password to null.
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object o)
java.lang.String	getHostName() Gets the host name.
char[]	getUserPassword() Gets a copy of the user password.
int	hashCode()
void	setHostName(java.lang.String pHostname) Specifies the host name.
void	setUserPassword(char[] pPassword) Sets a new password for this credential object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PasswordCredential

public PasswordCredential()

Constructs an object of a PasswordCredential. Hostname and user password will both be null.

PasswordCredential

public PasswordCredential(java.lang.String pPassword)

Deprecated. for security reason this class has been deprecated. PasswordCredential(char[] password) constructor must be used instead of this constructor.

Constructs an object of a PasswordCredential with the specified password.

Parameters:

pPassword -

PasswordCredential

public PasswordCredential(char[] pPassword)

Constructs an object of a PasswordCredential with the specified password.

Parameters:

pPassword -

Method Detail

clearUserPassword

public void clearUserPassword()

Clears the user password from memory and resets the password to null.

getHostName

public java.lang.String getHostName()

Gets the host name.

Returns:

hostname

getUserPassword

public char[] getUserPassword()

Gets a copy of the user password.

Returns:

user password

setHostName

public void setHostName(java.lang.String pHostname)

Specifies the host name.

Parameters:

pHostname - New hostname to be set.

setUserPassword

public void setUserPassword(char[] pPassword)

Sets a new password for this credential object. Old password will be cleared!

Parameters:

pPassword - New password to be set.

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object o)

hashCode

public int hashCode()