com.sun.security.jgss
Class GSSUtil

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.sun.security.jgss.GSSUtil

public class GSSUtil

extends Object

GSS-API Utilities for using in conjunction with Sun Microsystem's implementation of Java GSS-API.

Constructor Summary

GSSUtil()

Method Summary

static Subject

createSubject(GSSName principals, GSSCredential credentials) Use this method to convert a GSSName and GSSCredential into a Subject.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

GSSUtil

public GSSUtil()

Method Detail

createSubject

public static Subject createSubject(GSSName principals,
                                    GSSCredential credentials)

Use this method to convert a GSSName and GSSCredential into a Subject. Typically this would be done by a server that wants to impersonate a client thread at the Java level by setting a client Subject in the current access control context. If the server is merely interested in using a principal based policy in its local JVM, then it only needs to provide the GSSName of the client. The elements from the GSSName are placed in the principals set of this Subject and those from the GSSCredential are placed in the private credentials set of the Subject. Any Kerberos specific elements that are added to the subject will be instances of the standard Kerberos implementation classes defined in javax.security.auth.kerberos.

Returns:

a Subject with the entries that contain elements from the given GSSName and GSSCredential.