tachyon.security.authentication

Interface AuthenticationProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

CustomAuthenticationProviderImpl, SimpleAuthenticationProviderImpl

public interface AuthenticationProvider

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	AuthenticationProvider.Factory Factory method to create an instance of AuthenticationProvider based on AuthType and TachyonConf.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	authenticate(String user, String password) The authenticate method is called by the PlainServerCallbackHandler 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 PlainServerCallbackHandler 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