alluxio.security.authentication

Interface AuthenticationProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

CustomAuthenticationProvider, SimpleAuthenticationProvider

public interface AuthenticationProvider

Abstraction for an authentication provider at SASL server for AuthType.SIMPLE and AuthType.CUSTOM.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	AuthenticationProvider.Factory Factory for AuthenticationProvider.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	authenticate(String user, String password) The authenticate method is called by the PlainSaslServerCallbackHandler in the PlainSaslServer layer to authenticate users for their requests.

Method Detail

authenticate

void authenticate(String user,
                  String password)
           throws AuthenticationException

The authenticate method is called by the PlainSaslServerCallbackHandler in the PlainSaslServer layer to authenticate users for their requests. If a user is to be granted, return nothing/throw nothing. When a user is to be disallowed, throw an appropriate AuthenticationException.

Parameters:

user - The username received over the connection request

password - The password received over the connection request

Throws:

AuthenticationException - when a user is found to be invalid by the implementation