check the authorization permission for the user associated with authToken on operation Example: For example, if UsrGrpAdminServlet needs to authorize the caller it would do be done in the following fashion: try { authzTok = mAuthz.authorize( "DirAclAuthz", authToken, RES_GROUP, "read"); } catch (EBaseException e) { logger.warn("authorize call: " + e.getMessage(), e); }