com.atlassian.crowd.integration.authentication
Class PasswordHelper

java.lang.Object
  com.atlassian.crowd.integration.authentication.PasswordHelper

public class PasswordHelper
extends java.lang.Object

Various password helper methods.

Constructor Summary

PasswordHelper()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	generateRandomPassword()
boolean	isUniquePassword(PasswordCredential newCredential, InternalUser user, int lastPasswordsToCheck) Checks if the new encrypted credential has already been used by the the user in their credential history.
boolean	validateRegex(java.lang.String regex, PasswordCredential credential) Validates the password meets the expected regex restriction.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PasswordHelper

public PasswordHelper()

Method Detail

validateRegex

public boolean validateRegex(java.lang.String regex,
                             PasswordCredential credential)

Validates the password meets the expected regex restriction.

Parameters:

regex - The regex pattern.

credential - The password to check.

Returns:

true if the password is not blank/null and matches the given regex

isUniquePassword

public boolean isUniquePassword(PasswordCredential newCredential,
                                InternalUser user,
                                int lastPasswordsToCheck)

Checks if the new encrypted credential has already been used by the the user in their credential history.

Parameters:

newCredential - The new encrypted credential.

user - The user.

Returns:

boolean true if the password does not match the existing password or any from the user's credential history.

generateRandomPassword

public java.lang.String generateRandomPassword()