Username and Password

Introduction

This section describes how to authenticate users using the username and password as credentials.

This authentication type is provided by the org.picketbox.core.authentication.impl.UserNamePasswordAuthenticationMechanism.

You do not need any specific configuration to use this mechanism, it is already configured when you start PicketBox.

Supported Credentials

This mechanism supports the following credential:

org.picketbox.core.authentication.credential.UsernamePasswordCredential

The code bellow demonstrates how to create this credential type.

String userName = "admin";
String password = "admin";

UserCredential credential = new UsernamePasswordCredential(userName, password);

Example

Username and Password Authentication

PicketBoxManager picketBoxManager = createManager();

UserContext authenticatingContext = new UserContext();

authenticatingContext.setCredential(new UsernamePasswordCredential("admin", "admin"));

UserContext authenticatedContext = picketBoxManager.authenticate(authenticatingContext);

assertNotNull(authenticatedContext);
assertNotNull(authenticatedContext.isAuthenticated());