Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

LoginException

Synopsis

Signals that something went wrong while creating a LoginContext or during the login or logout process. The subclasses of this class represent more specific exception types.

Figure 19-27. javax.security.auth.login.LoginException

public class LoginException extends java.security.GeneralSecurityException {
// Public Constructors
     public LoginException( );  
     public LoginException(String msg);  
}

Subclasses

AccountException, CredentialException, FailedLoginException

Thrown By

java.security.AuthProvider.{login( ), logout( )}, LoginContext.{login( ), LoginContext( ), logout( )}, javax.security.auth.spi.LoginModule.{abort( ), commit( ), login( ), logout( )}