/* * Copyright (c) 1997, 2001, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ package java.net; /** * The class PasswordAuthentication is a data holder that is used by * Authenticator. It is simply a repository for a user name and a password. * * @see java.net.Authenticator * @see java.net.Authenticator#getPasswordAuthentication() * * @author Bill Foote * @since 1.2 */ public final class PasswordAuthentication { private String userName; private 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. * * @param userName the user name * @param password the user's password */ public PasswordAuthentication(String userName, char[] password) { this.userName = userName; this.password = password.clone(); } /** * Returns the user name. * * @return the user name */ public String getUserName() { return userName; } /** * 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. * * @return the password */ public char[] getPassword() { return password; } }