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:: com :: sun :: star ::
module auth
Description security and authenticates interfaces

Services
SSOManagerFactory | represents a starting point for Single Signon interactions.
SSOPasswordCache | provided as a convenience for simple username/password based Single Signon implementations which don't provide some sort of authentication information repository.

Interfaces
XSSOAcceptorContext | represents an acceptor side security context.
XSSOContext | Base SSO security context representation
XSSOInitiatorContext | represents an initiator side security context.
XSSOManager | supports the creation of security contexts for both the initiator/source side and the acceptor/target side.
XSSOManagerFactory | Factory for creating an SSO Manager supporting the user's configured security mechanism
XSSOPasswordCache | supports password caching for security mechanisms which use passwords as credentials or as an input to credential creation but don't have an external method to cache these passwords.

Exceptions
AuthenticationFailedException | indicates failure to authenticate using the specified security context.
InvalidArgumentException | indicates an invalid argument was passed to SSO API.
InvalidContextException | indicates an attempt was made to use an invalid source or target context.
InvalidCredentialException | indicates an attempt was made to use an invalid or non existent credential.
InvalidPrincipalException | indicates an invalid principal was specified.
PersistenceFailureException | indicates an underlying persistence implementation failure.
UnsupportedException | indicates an operation unsupported by the implementation.

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