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SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser overview

Documentation context: Packaged Component (NuGet)

SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser is a legacy .NET Framework library that manages external Active Directory users, classifies authenticated portal users into UserTypes, and applies credential-related checks such as password changes and payment-password validation.

Purpose

  • Manage Business Online external-user lifecycle operations against the EXTERNAL Active Directory domain.
  • Provide caller-consumable user classification through UserType and IsXxx properties derived from domain and group membership.
  • Support portal credential workflows including password changes, payment-password validation, uniqueness checks, and special-user credential lookup.

Responsibilities

  • Initialize an Active Directory session by combining clsSecurityPrincipal, elevated credentials, and SAIF.DirectoryServices abstractions.
  • Create, search, update, and delete EXTERNAL-domain user accounts.
  • Add and remove users from named Active Directory groups.
  • Validate user IDs, passwords, payment passwords, and online security-agreement configuration.
  • Expose a test harness class for manual verification of role-classification behavior.

Key components

  • clsSystemUser: Primary façade for Active Directory user management, role classification, and credential checks.
  • clsSystemUser.UserTypes: Enumeration that represents the library's caller-visible classification outcomes.
  • clsSystemUser.UserStructure: Public structure that carries account data for create and update operations.
  • clsSystemUserTest: Utility class that exercises authentication and reports classification flags.

Sources

  • Business\SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser\clsSystemUser.vb
  • Business\SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser\clsSystemUserTest.vb
  • Business\SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser\App.config
  • Business\SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser\packages.config
  • Business\SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser\SAIF.BOF.Business.Security.SystemUser.vbproj
  • Business\SAIF.Business.Security.SystemUser\SAIF.BOF.Business.Security.SystemUser.nuspec