org.apache.felix.webconsole
Interface WebConsoleSecurityProvider

All Known Subinterfaces:

WebConsoleSecurityProvider2

public interface WebConsoleSecurityProvider

The WebConsoleSecurityProvider is a service interface allowing to use an external system to authenticate users before granting access to the Web Console.

Since:

3.1.0; Web Console Bundle 3.1.0

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	authenticate(java.lang.String username, java.lang.String password) Authenticates the user with the given user name and password.
boolean	authorize(java.lang.Object user, java.lang.String role) Checks whether bthe authenticated user has the given role permission.

Method Detail

authenticate

java.lang.Object authenticate(java.lang.String username,
                              java.lang.String password)

Authenticates the user with the given user name and password.

Parameters:

username - The name of the user presented by the client

password - The password presented by the client

Returns:

Some object representing the authenticated user indicating general access to be granted to the web console. If the user cannot be authenticated (e.g. unknown user name or wrong password) or the user must not be allowed access to the web console at all null must be returned from this method.

authorize

boolean authorize(java.lang.Object user,
                  java.lang.String role)

Checks whether bthe authenticated user has the given role permission.

Parameters:

user - The object referring to the authenticated user. This is the object returned from the authenticate(String, String) method and will never be null.

role - The requested role

Returns:

true if the user is given permission for the given role.