VOS::LocalPasswordAuth Class Reference
[libvos]

#include <vos/vos/passwordauth.hh>

Inheritance diagram for VOS::LocalPasswordAuth:

Detailed Description

This class should be a cotype with an Identity Vobject.

It implements a secure hash-based challenge-response password validation protocol, and upon successfully completing the authentication, the remote site takes on this Identity. The cleartext password is never sent during the validation protocol.

Definition at line 21 of file passwordauth.hh.

Public Member Functions

virtual ~LocalPasswordAuth ()
destructor
virtual const std::string getVOSType ()
void setPassword (const std::string &password)
Set the password (cleartext).
std::string getPassword ()
void handleAuthRequest (Message *m)
Handles the challenge-reply protocol to authenticate a remote site to take on this identity.
void handleSetPassword (Message *m)

Static Public Member Functions

static MetaObject * new_LocalPasswordAuth (VobjectBase *superobject, const std::string &type)
Used by metaobject factory, never call directly.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

virtual VOS::LocalPasswordAuth::~LocalPasswordAuth ( ) [virtual]

destructor

Member Function Documentation

std::string VOS::LocalPasswordAuth::getPassword ( )

Returns:: the password (cleartext)

virtual const std::string VOS::LocalPasswordAuth::getVOSType ( ) [virtual]

Returns:: VOS type "core:passwordauth"

Reimplemented from VOS::MetaObject.

void VOS::LocalPasswordAuth::handleAuthRequest ( Message * m )

Handles the challenge-reply protocol to authenticate a remote site to take on this identity.

void VOS::LocalPasswordAuth::handleSetPassword ( Message * m )

static MetaObject* VOS::LocalPasswordAuth::new_LocalPasswordAuth	(	VobjectBase *	superobject,
		const std::string &	type
	)			`[static]`

Used by metaobject factory, never call directly.

void VOS::LocalPasswordAuth::setPassword ( const std::string & password )

Set the password (cleartext).

Parameters:

password

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

/home/tetron/hack/vos/libs/vos/vos/passwordauth.hh