com.maverick.sshd.platform
Interface AuthenticationProvider

public interface AuthenticationProvider

Implement this interface to customize the authentication of users logging into your server. To install your provider you must configure the servers ConfigurationContext within the servers configure method.

This interface has been updated to include session id in all method calls to make it more consistent.

Author:

Lee David Painter

Method Summary

boolean	changePassword(Connection con, java.lang.String username, java.lang.String oldpassword, java.lang.String newpassword) Implement this method to change the users password
void	endSession(Connection con)
java.lang.String	getGroup(Connection con) Get the primary group for a user
java.lang.String	getHomeDirectory(Connection con) Get a users home directory.
void	startSession(Connection con) New methods
boolean	verifyPassword(Connection con, java.lang.String username, java.lang.String password, java.net.SocketAddress ipAddress) Implement this method to log the user into the system.

Method Detail

verifyPassword

boolean verifyPassword(Connection con,
                       java.lang.String username,
                       java.lang.String password,
                       java.net.SocketAddress ipAddress)
                       throws PasswordChangeException

Implement this method to log the user into the system.

Parameters:

sessionid -

username -

password -

ipAddress -

Returns:

boolean

Throws:

PasswordChangeException - throw this exception if the users password requires a changing.

getGroup

java.lang.String getGroup(Connection con)

Get the primary group for a user

Parameters:

username -

Returns:

getHomeDirectory

java.lang.String getHomeDirectory(Connection con)

Get a users home directory.

Parameters:

username -

Returns:

changePassword

boolean changePassword(Connection con,
                       java.lang.String username,
                       java.lang.String oldpassword,
                       java.lang.String newpassword)
                       throws PasswordChangeException

Implement this method to change the users password

Parameters:

sessionid -

username -

oldpassword -

newpassword -

Returns:

boolean

Throws:

PasswordChangeException

startSession

void startSession(Connection con)

New methods

endSession

void endSession(Connection con)