org.exoplatform.services.organization

Interface ExtendedUserHandler

public interface ExtendedUserHandler

Created by The eXo Platform SAS
Implement it if you want to be able to use Digest access authentication.

Author:

Dmitry Kuleshov

Level API:

Experimental

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	authenticate(String username, String password, PasswordEncrypter pe) Checks if user's credentials are valid.

Method Detail

authenticate

boolean authenticate(String username,
                   String password,
                   PasswordEncrypter pe)
                     throws Exception

Checks if user's credentials are valid. It is more flexible because Credential may contain password context or some other useful data.

Parameters:

username - the user name

password - the user password

pe - the algorithm to use to encrypt the password

Returns:

return true if the username and the password matches the database record, else return false.

Throws:

Exception - throw an exception if cannot access the database