SecurityContextProvider Class | Apache log4net™ SDK Documentation

The SecurityContextProvider providers default SecurityContext instances.
Inheritance Hierarchy

System
Object
log4net.Core
SecurityContextProvider

Namespace: log4net.Core
Assembly: log4net (in log4net.dll) Version: 2.0.8.0-.NET 4.0
Syntax

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    public class SecurityContextProvider

    Public Class SecurityContextProvider

    public ref class SecurityContextProvider

    type SecurityContextProvider =  class end

The SecurityContextProvider type exposes the following members.

Constructors

| Name | Description
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| SecurityContextProvider | Protected default constructor to allow subclassing

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Properties

| Name | Description
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| DefaultProvider | Gets or sets the default SecurityContextProvider

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Methods

| Name | Description
--- | --- | ---
| CreateSecurityContext | Create a SecurityContext for a consumer
| Equals | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
| Finalize | Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
| ToString | Returns a String that represents the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

A configured component that interacts with potentially protected system resources uses a SecurityContext to provide the elevated privileges required. If the SecurityContext object has been not been explicitly provided to the component then the component will request one from this SecurityContextProvider.

By default the DefaultProvider is an instance of SecurityContextProvider which returns only NullSecurityContext objects. This is a reasonable default where the privileges required are not know by the system.

This default behavior can be overridden by subclassing the SecurityContextProvider and overriding the CreateSecurityContext(Object) method to return the desired SecurityContext objects. The default provider can be replaced by programmatically setting the value of the DefaultProvider property.

An alternative is to use the log4net.Config.SecurityContextProviderAttribute This attribute can be applied to an assembly in the same way as the log4net.Config.XmlConfiguratorAttribute". The attribute takes the type to use as the SecurityContextProvider as an argument.

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log4net.Core Namespace