XmlAuthenticator

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The XmlAuthenticator is a simple authentication scheme where an XML file or a configuration file specifies the users directly. XmlAuthenticator is useful when you have a small number of known users.

<init> directives

directive	description
logout-on-session-timeout	If true, principals should be logged out when a session times out	true
password-digest	Password digest type of form: MD5-base64	MD5-base64
password-digest-algorithm	Sets the password digest algorithm	MD5
password-digest-realm	Sets the realm to use for the digest	resin
path	Path to an XML file containing the configuration
principal-cache-size	Size of the principal cache	4096
user	Inline user configuration in the form "name:password:roles"

Example

resin-web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">
  <authenticator>
    <type>com.caucho.server.security.XmlAuthenticator</type>
    <init>
      <password-digest>none</password-digest>
      <user>Harry Potter:quidditch:user</user>
    </init>
  </authenticator>
  ...
</web-app>