001/* 002 * (C) Copyright 2006-2011 Nuxeo SA (http://nuxeo.com/) and others. 003 * 004 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 007 * 008 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 009 * 010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 014 * limitations under the License. 015 * 016 * Contributors: 017 * bstefanescu 018 */ 019package org.nuxeo.runtime.api.login; 020 021import javax.security.auth.login.LoginException; 022 023import org.nuxeo.runtime.api.Framework; 024 025/** 026 * This service is performing a login under another identity without checking the password. 027 * <p> 028 * You must never use this service explicitly in your code since it may be removed in future. Instead you should use 029 * {@link Framework#loginUser(String)}. 030 * <p> 031 * Implementors must implement this interface and expose the implementation as a Nuxeo service. 032 * 033 * @author <a href="mailto:bs@nuxeo.com">Bogdan Stefanescu</a> 034 * @since 5.4.0.2 035 */ 036public interface LoginAs { 037 038 /** 039 * Perform the Login As. 040 */ 041 NuxeoLoginContext loginAs(String username) throws LoginException; 042 043}