Tag: authentication
Using SSH or SFTP resources from a Java app
by ricardoz on May.22, 2009, under Security
There are many commercial SSH client libraries for Java, but it was hard to find a good open source one. Finally I stumbled upon SSHTools and I have to say it works wonderfully and the API is clean and simple.
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Authenticate users using i5/OS (AS400) credentials
by ricardoz on May.12, 2008, under Security, Tips
The folks at IBM have a nice API to use i5/OS (AS400) stuff from Java code. Check it out at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/toolbox/index.html.
What I particularly find very useful and have used often is to validate user names and passwords with the AS400 authentication services. The following code validates a userName and password.
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Authenticating users using Unix or Windows credentials
by ricardoz on Apr.22, 2008, under Security, Tips
It’s usually very nice, and sometimes a requirement, to validate usernames and passwords using existing credentials. And in most situations big frameworks or single sign-on systems are just damn overkill and complex.
If you need to check your users credentials via an existing Unix system (that supports PAM) or a Windows domain controller check out (continue reading…)
