public final class PasswordAuthentication
extends Object 

Since:

1.2

See Also:

Authenticator, Authenticator.getPasswordAuthentication()

• Constructor Summary

  Constructors

  Constructor	Description
  PasswordAuthentication (String userName, char[] password)	Creates a new PasswordAuthentication object from the given user name and password.

• Method Summary

  All Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  char[]	getPassword ()	Returns the user password.
  String	getUserName ()	Returns the user name.

  • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

    clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

• Constructor Detail

  • PasswordAuthentication

    public PasswordAuthentication(String userName,
     char[] password)

    Creates a new PasswordAuthentication object from the given user name and password.

    Note that the given user password is cloned before it is stored in the new PasswordAuthentication object.

    Parameters:

    userName - the user name

    password - the user's password

• Method Detail

  • getUserName

    public String getUserName()

    Returns the user name.

    Returns:

    the user name

  • getPassword

    public char[] getPassword()

    Returns the user password.

    Note that this method returns a reference to the password. It is the caller's responsibility to zero out the password information after it is no longer needed.

    Returns:

    the password