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
• Repositories
  • PAS