UserPrincipal (Java Platform SE 8 ) (original) (raw)

• All Superinterfaces:
  Principal
  All Known Subinterfaces:
  GroupPrincipal

public interface UserPrincipal
extends Principal
A Principal representing an identity used to determine access rights to objects in a file system.
On many platforms and file systems an entity requires appropriate access rights or permissions in order to access objects in a file system. The access rights are generally performed by checking the identity of the entity. For example, on implementations that use Access Control Lists (ACLs) to enforce privilege separation then a file in the file system may have an associated ACL that determines the access rights of identities specified in the ACL.
A UserPrincipal object is an abstract representation of an identity. It has a name that is typically the username or account name that it represents. User principal objects may be obtained using a UserPrincipalLookupService, or returned by FileAttributeView implementations that provide access to identity related attributes. For example, the AclFileAttributeView and PosixFileAttributeView provide access to a file's owner.
Since:
1.7

• • Method Summary

     * ### Methods inherited from interface java.security.[Principal](../../../../java/security/Principal.html "interface in java.security")  
     `[equals](../../../../java/security/Principal.html#equals-java.lang.Object-), [getName](../../../../java/security/Principal.html#getName--), [hashCode](../../../../java/security/Principal.html#hashCode--), [implies](../../../../java/security/Principal.html#implies-javax.security.auth.Subject-), [toString](../../../../java/security/Principal.html#toString--)`

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