Package com.sshtools.common.auth

Class PasswordAuthenticationProvider

java.lang.Object

com.sshtools.common.auth.PasswordAuthenticationProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

Authenticator

public abstract class PasswordAuthenticationProvider
extends Object
implements Authenticator

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

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PasswordAuthenticationProvider()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract boolean	changePassword(SshConnection con, String username, String oldpassword, String newpassword)	Implement this method to change the users password
String	getName()
abstract boolean	verifyPassword(SshConnection con, String username, String password)	Implement this method to log the user into the system.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

PasswordAuthenticationProvider

public PasswordAuthenticationProvider()

Method Details

getName

public String getName()

verifyPassword

public abstract boolean verifyPassword(SshConnection con,
 String username,
 String password)
                                throws PasswordChangeException,
IOException

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.

IOException

changePassword

public abstract boolean changePassword(SshConnection con,
 String username,
 String oldpassword,
 String newpassword)
                                throws PasswordChangeException,
IOException

Implement this method to change the users password

Parameters:

sessionid -

username -

oldpassword -

newpassword -

Returns:

boolean

Throws:

PasswordChangeException

IOException