Paul Holmes-Higgin cefda8c965 Updated header to LGPL
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Alfresco Software Limited.
*
* This file is part of Alfresco
*
* Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication;
import net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication;
import net.sf.acegisecurity.context.security.SecureContext;
/**
* Extensions for the Alfresco security context.
*
* This is based on the Linux model and supports real, effective and stored authorities
*
* The real authority is used for auditing and reporting who the user is etc.
* The effective authority is used for permission checks.
*
* RunAs support leaves the real authority and changes only the effective authority
* That means "special" code can run code as system but still be audited as Joe
*
* In the future scrips etc can support a setUId flag and run as the owner of the script.
* If the script chooses to do this ....
* A method invocation could do the same (after entry security checks)
*
* TODO: extent runAs to take a nodeRef context - it can then set the stored atc and set this as effective if required.
*
* @author andyh
*
*/
public interface AlfrescoSecureContext extends SecureContext
{
/**
* Get the effective authentication - used for permission checks
* @return
*/
public Authentication getEffectiveAuthentication();
/**
* Get the real authenticaiton - used for auditing and everything else
* @return
*/
public Authentication getRealAuthentication();
/**
* Set the effective authentication held by the context
*
* @param effictiveAuthentication
*/
public void setEffectiveAuthentication(Authentication effictiveAuthentication);
/**
* Set the real authentication held by the context
*
* @param realAuthentication
*/
public void setRealAuthentication(Authentication realAuthentication);
}