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

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

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

KEY_CREDENTIAL_SECRET

Method Summary

boolean

isActive() Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

getSecretType, init

Method Detail

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