Provides a persistent context for GSS credentials. A credential context describes a credential that belongs to a portal user. A user can have multiple credential contexts but no two credential contexts can have the same distinguished name (DN). That is, each credential context describes the use of a credential with a unique DN within a portal.
Credential contexts are activated by supplying a credential and will maintain a handle to that credential until the credential expires. Credential contexts are created and maintained by the credential manager service. Moreover, credential contexts can contain zero or more resource mappings. That is, credential contexts can be used to describe for which resources a credential may be used in a portal.
@see GSSCredential
@see CredentialManagerService