Plugins

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IExtractionPlugin

Extracts login name and credentials from a request.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.ILoginPasswordExtractionPlugin

Extends: Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IExtractionPlugin

Common-case derivative.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.ILoginPasswordHostExtractionPlugin

Extends: Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.ILoginPasswordExtractionPlugin

Common-case derivative.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IAuthenticationPlugin

Map credentials to a user ID.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IChallengePlugin

Initiate a challenge to the user to provide credentials.

Challenge plugins have an attribute ‘protocol’ representing the protocol the plugin operates under, defaulting to None.

Plugins operating under the same protocol will all be given an attempt to fire. The first plugin of a protocol group that successfully fires establishes the protocol of the overall challenge.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.ICredentialsUpdatePlugin

Callback: user has changed her password.

This interface is not responsible for the actual password change, it is used after a successful password change event.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.ICredentialsResetPlugin

Callback: user has logged out.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IUserAdderPlugin

Create a new user record in a User Manager

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IRoleAssignerPlugin

Assign a role to an identified principal

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IUserFactoryPlugin

Create a new IPropertiedUser.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IAnonymousUserFactoryPlugin

Create a new anonymous IPropertiedUser.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IPropertiesPlugin

Return a property set for a user.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IGroupsPlugin

Determine the groups to which a user belongs.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IRolesPlugin

Determine the (global) roles which a user has.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IUpdatePlugin

Allow the user or the application to update the user’s properties.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IValidationPlugin

Specify allowable values for user properties.

o E.g., constrain minimum password length, allowed characters, etc.

o Operate on entire property sets, not individual properties.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IUserEnumerationPlugin

Allow querying users by ID, and searching for users.

o ???: can these be done by a single plugin?

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IGroupEnumerationPlugin

Allow querying groups by ID, and searching for groups.

o ???: can these be done by a single plugin?

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IRoleEnumerationPlugin

Allow querying roles by ID, and searching for roles.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IRequestTypeSniffer

Given a request, detects request type for later use by other plugins.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.IChallengeProtocolChooser

Choose a proper set of protocols to be used for challenging the client given a request.

interface Products.PluggableAuthService.interfaces.plugins.INotCompetentPlugin

check whether this user folder is not competent to authenticate.

Never used for a top level user folder; primarily used to prevent shadowing of authentications by higher level user folders.