GroupPrincipal

public interface GroupPrincipal implements UserPrincipal

A UserPrincipal representing a group identity, used to determine access rights to objects in a file system. The exact definition of a group is implementation specific, but typically, it represents an identity created for administrative purposes so as to determine the access rights for the members of the group. Whether an entity can be a member of multiple groups, and whether groups can be nested, are implementation specified and therefore not specified.

See Also

• UserPrincipalLookupService.lookupPrincipalByGroupName(String)

Inherited Method Summary

From interface java.security.Principal

abstract boolean	equals(Object another) Compares this principal to the specified object.
abstract String	getName() Returns the name of this principal.
abstract int	hashCode() Returns a hashcode for this principal.
boolean	implies(Subject subject) Returns true if the specified subject is implied by this principal.
abstract String	toString() Returns a string representation of this principal.