Comments on: Verifying real usernames/passwords in Java with Shaj

By: spud

spud — Fri, 06 May 2005 00:52:44 +0000

Chirs, you definitely need to setup a PAM “service” and not pass in null as the first argument. See http://opensource.cenqua.com/shaj/api/com/cenqua/shaj/PAMAuthenticator.html

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 May 2005 21:38:36 +0000

Shaj does not seem to work for me. I tried shaj.checkPassword(null, user, pw); on Mac OS X but it return false. Any ideas?

By: john

john — Sun, 01 May 2005 07:36:44 +0000

hi, i tried to use Shaj for a practice but it seems that it is not working right to check my local linux computer for proper username and password.

Here is my code from test.java:



import com.cenqua.shaj.Shaj;
public class test{

  public static void main(String[] args){

   boolean correctPassword = Shaj.checkPassword(null, "john", "test");

   if (correctPassword)

    System.out.println("Authorized User.");

   else

   System.out.println("Incorrect UserName/Password.");

  }

}//end of test

any ideas why it is not working?

thanks!

By: Gregg Bolinger

Gregg Bolinger — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:31:12 +0000

This is a really nice package. Works great, simple, and I can actually use it in a project. Great work!

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:08:16 +0000

http://free.tagish.net/jaas/doc.html

By: Matt Quail

Matt Quail — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:26:32 +0000

> Hmmm... isn't what Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) is supposedly doing?

Nope. Or rather, JAAS provides not "LoginModule" for "system authentication". But I intend to add a JAAS adapter to Shaj so you can plug the two together.

(If JAAS does do "system authentication", can someone send me working code, because I could never get it to work.)

By: PA

PA — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:06:14 +0000

Hmmm… isn’t what Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) is supposedly doing?

http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/jaas/tutorials/GeneralAcnOnly.html

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