org.mycore.user.authentication
Interface MCRAuthenticator

All Known Implementing Classes:

MCRMailAuthenticator

public interface MCRAuthenticator

Authenticates a userID by checking a given password for that userID.

Version:

$Revision: 13085 $ $Date: 2008-02-06 18:27:24 +0100 (Mi, 06 Feb 2008) $

Author:

Frank Lützenkirchen

Method Summary

boolean	authenticate(String username, String password) Authenticates a user by checking a given password for that user.
void	init(String ID) Initializes this instance.

Method Detail

init

void init(String ID)

Initializes this instance. Each MCRAuthenticator instance must have a unique ID that determines the class and the configuration properties of that instance. All configuration properties of this instance have the common prefix MCR.UserAuthenticator.[ID].*

Parameters:

ID - the unique ID of this MCRAuthenticator instance

authenticate

boolean authenticate(String username,
                     String password)

Authenticates a user by checking a given password for that user. The mechanism used for checking this depends on the implementation that is used, for example LDAP, IMAP, SLNP, JAAS, ...

Parameters:

username - the username

password - the password

Returns:

true, if the password is correct, false otherwise