Re: Login accounts and Security...

Roland Schemers (Roland.Schemers@Eng)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:50:38 -0800 (PST)

Message-Id: <199801052349.PAA25736@shorter.eng.sun.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:50:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Roland Schemers <Roland.Schemers@Eng>
Subject: Re: Login accounts and Security...
To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com, akofman@verix.com

> I doubt if this is the right place to post my question... But I'll give
> it a try!

Yup, this is the right place.

> Basically, I need to know if Java provides any way to access login
> accounts and security on the native system. I don't think java.security
> package deals with this issues..
>

Currently not. We are investigating various ways of doing this though.
If you need to do this, you'll have to write your own native methods
for now.

roland