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Anonymous
As just stated,
the default authentication mechanism is
"none"
if no authentication environment properties have been set.
If the client sets the
Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION environment property to
"none", then the authentication mechanism is
"none" and
all other authentication environment properties are ignored.
You would want to do this explicitly only to ensure that
any other authentication properties that might have been set are
ignored.
In either case,
the client will be treated as an
anonymous client.
This means that the server does not know or care who the client is and will
allow the client to access (read and update) any data that has been
configured to be accessible by any unauthenticated client.
Because none of the directory examples in the
Naming and Directory Operations lesson set any of the authentication environment
properties, all of them use anonymous authentication.
Here is an example that explicitly sets the
Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION property to "none"
(even though doing this
is not strictly necessary because that is the default).
// Set up the environment for creating the initial context
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ldap://localhost:389/o=JNDITutorial");
// Use anonymous authentication
env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "none");
// Create the initial context
DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
// ... do something useful with ctx
