The Security Service enables applications to do the
following:
-
authenticate the credentials of
users. Authentication is the process of verifying that a user ID and
its password are valid. The Security Service uses the Java Authentication
and Authorization Service (JAAS) classes and interfaces to provide
a pluggable authentication mechanism.
-
propagate user identity contexts
across distributed security domains.
-
implement a single sign-on environment
by saving credentials in the user context of an authenticated user.
-
request a user's credentials from
a user context that another application created. If credentials exist
for the specified domain, then the application can use them to access
resources without requiring additional authentication input from the
user.
For detailed usage documentation
and example code, see
com.sas.services.security in the Foundation Services class documentation at
http://support.sas.com/rnd/javadoc/93.