Package ants.core.security

The ANTS internal security implementation.

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Description

Class Summary

AdminPermission	Represents the "root" permission.
BasicPolicy	A hashtable-based implementation of a security policy that maps principals to permissions.
Permission	Describes an abstract permission, consisting of a string name and an optional set of actions from the set {read,write,execute}.
Policy	The abstract specification of a class that maps principals to permissions.
Principal	Represents a resource principal: something that has access to resources (i.e., administrator, John Smith, etc.).
ReferenceMonitor	This class serves as the interface to a basic reference monitor.
SecurityDefaults	Represents a set of built-in access control defaults.

Exception Summary

ReferenceMonitorException

Raised to signal an access control violation.

Package ants.core.security Description

The ANTS internal security implementation.

This package is used by ANTS to manage identities (Princiapls) and permissions associated with those identities. For more information about the ANTS security architecture, look at the security API documentation.