UseridPasswordFileTestState

Introduction and overview

This AuthState should not be used in production. Its sole purpose is to test and demonstrate functionality.

This AuthState is a very simple user registry for user ID/password logins for testing.

Description

The following table and chapters describe the characteristics of the AuthState.

Topic	Description
Class	ch.nevis.esauth.auth.states.standard.UseridPasswordFileTestState
Logging	StdStates
Auditing	none
Marker	file:username/password
Methods	authenticate

Properties

• UseridPasswordFile (string)

  This property should point to a Java property file, containing the user accounts. The file must be readable for the process owner of the nevisAuth instance.

Input

• isiwebuserid (string, required)

  login ID (and at the same time the user ID) of the user to authenticate

• isiwebpasswd (string, required)

  password

Transitions

• ok

  User was authenticated

• default

  User not found or pass-phrase not valid.

Output

none

Errors

• lasterror=1

  lasterrorinfo=unknown user; invalid password

Notes

none

Example

<AuthState name="SimpleLogin" class="ch.nevis.esauth.auth.states.standard.UseridPasswordFileTestState">
  <ResultCond name="ok" next="AuthDone"/>
  <Response value="AUTH_CONTINUE">
    <Gui name="AuthUidPwDialog" label="login.uidpw.label">
     <GuiElem name="lasterror" type="error" label="${notes:lasterrorinfo}" value="${notes:lasterror}"/>
     <GuiElem name="info" type="info" label="login.uidpw.text"/>
     <GuiElem name="isiwebuserid" type="text" label="userid.label" value="${request:loginId}"/>
     <GuiElem name="isiwebpasswd" type="pw-text" label="password.label"/>
     <GuiElem name="submit" type="button" label="submit.button.label" value="Login"/>
    </Gui>
  </Response>
  <property name="UseridPasswordFile" value="conf/passwd.properties"/>
</AuthState>

info

For testing, you can also use the ch.nevis.esauth.auth.engine.UidPwLoginTest AuthState (see default configuration for details). This AuthState allows a login with any login ID and a password with the same value.