com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials
Interface PassiveCredential
- All Superinterfaces:
- Credential
- All Known Subinterfaces:
- BinaryPassiveCredential, JaasSubjectPassiveCredential, SimplePassiveCredential, UserPasswordPassiveCredential
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- BinaryPassiveCredential, JaasSubjectPassiveCredential, PassiveCredential, SimplePassiveCredential, UserPasswordPassiveCredential
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public interface PassiveCredential
- extends Credential
A passive credential is simply a container for an user's secret.
The portlet extracts the secret out of the credential and does all the authentication (communication) at the backend itself.
This credential type is a fallback for those cases in which no active credential is provided
(e.g. because the backend's authentication protocol is too specific).
Preconditions:
- The configuration data passed to the init method must define following values: KEY_USER_SECRET
- Since:
- 5.1.0.1
Method Summary
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boolean |
isActive()
Returns whether a credential is active or passive. |
isActive
boolean isActive()
- Returns whether a credential is active or passive.
- Specified by:
- isActive in interface Credential
- Returns:
- boolean
always returns false
- See Also:
- ActiveCredential,
PassiveCredential