org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.security.user

Interface UserAuthenticationFactory

public interface UserAuthenticationFactory

Provides a user management specific implementation of the Authentication interface to those LoginModules that verify a given authentication request by evaluation information exposed by the Jackrabbit user management API.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Authentication	getAuthentication(UserConfiguration configuration, Root root, java.lang.String userId) Returns an implementation Authentication for the specified userId.

Method Detail

getAuthentication

Authentication getAuthentication(UserConfiguration configuration,
                                 Root root,
                                 java.lang.String userId)

Returns an implementation Authentication for the specified userId.

Parameters:

configuration - The user configuration.

root - The Root that provides repository access.

userId - The userId for which a user authentication is provided.

Returns:

The authentication object for the given configuration and userId or null if this implementation cannot not handle the specified parameters.