Java Command Line User Authentication

This is an interface to authenticate and get user information in UNIX/Linux environments. This just wraps command line utilities and so that JNI, and thus, system specific compilation can be avoided.

Specifically, this provides: * User authentication using the pwauth binary. * User full name and other basic information using the getent binary. * Can be used for the fairly simple and useful IPC/process API (Command class). * Pure Java implementation.

Paths of these binaries default to those on Debian systems. However, if the path isn’t found which is used to find it. You can override the default path with com.zensols.unix.userauth.UserManager.overridePath.

Obtaining

In your pom.xml file add the dependency XML element below: xml <dependency> <groupId>com.zensols.sys</groupId> <artifactId>userauth</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> </dependency>

Documentation

More documentation: * Javadoc * Dependencies

Building

To build from source, do the following:

Install Maven
Install GNU make (optional)
Build the software: make
Build the distribution binaries: make dist

Note that you can also build a single jar file with all the dependencies with: make package.

Other Libraries

Jenkins has a plugin available, which uses pwauth. However, it is tightly coupled their framework, for which libraries are difficult to find.

Changelog

An extensive changelog is available here.

License

Apache License version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Java User Auth