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Pluggable Authentication Service¶

Description

The Pluggable authentication service (PAS) provides an easy way to customize the way your users are authenticated and assigned roles.

  • Introduction
  • Features and interfaces
  • The important interfaces
  • Configuring PAS
  • Configuring an individual PAS plugin
  • Concepts
  • The user object
  • User creation
  • User factory plugin
  • Properties plugins
  • Group plugins
  • Roles plugin
  • Authorisation algorithm
  • Credential extraction
    • Writing a plugin
  • Credential authentication
  • Challenges
  • PAS eats exceptions
    • Do not swallow
  • Plugins
    • Plugin interfaces
    • Plugin Types
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