Package com.perforce.p4java.server.delegator

Interface IPasswdDelegator

All Known Subinterfaces:

IOptionsServer, IServer, IStreamingServer

All Known Implementing Classes:

NtsServerImpl, OneShotServerImpl, PasswdDelegator, RpcServer, Server

public interface IPasswdDelegator

Implementation to handle the Passwd command.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	changePassword(java.lang.String oldPassword, java.lang.String newPassword, java.lang.String userName)	Change a user's password on the server.

Method Detail

changePassword

java.lang.String changePassword(java.lang.String oldPassword,
                                java.lang.String newPassword,
                                java.lang.String userName)
                         throws P4JavaException

Change a user's password on the server. After a password is changed for a user, the user must login again with the new password. Specifying a username as an argument to this command requires 'super' access granted by 'p4 protect'

Note: setting the 'newPassword' to null or empty will delete the password.

Parameters:

oldPassword - possibly-null or possibly-empty user's old password. If null or empty, it assumes the current password is not set.

newPassword - non-null and non-empty user's new password.

userName - possibly-null possibly-null name of the target user whose password will be changed to the new password. If null, the current user will be used. If non-null, this command requires 'super' access granted by 'p4 protect'.

Returns:

result

Throws:

P4JavaException - if any error occurs in the processing of this method.

Since:

2011.2