5.3.6 DelegationLoginModule

This login module is used to invoke custom login modules.

It delegates the authentication process to a specified custom login module. The following figure shows an overview of DelegationLoginModule.

Figure 5‒16: Overview of DelegationLoginModule

To use this module, specify the class name of the used custom login module in jaas.conf (the JAAS configuration file). DelegationLoginModule reads this file and instantiates the custom login module. The argument given to the initialize method of DelegationLoginModule is passed to the custom login module.

The authentication process is delegated to the custom login module.

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