List of Plugin Interfaces

Description

PAS Plugins are broken down by the different functionalities they provide. A particular plugin may provide one or many of the following interfaces

• Extraction Plugins

  Extraction plugins are responsible for extracting credentials from the request.

• Authentication Plugins

  Authentication plugins are responsible for validating credentials generated by the Extraction Plugin.

• Challenge Plugins

  Challenge plugins initiate a challenge to the user to provide credentials.

• Update Credentials Plugins

  Credential update plugins respond to the user changing credentials.

• Reset Credentials Plugins

  Credential clear plugins respond to a user logging out.

• Userfactory Plugins

  Create users.

• Anonymoususerfactory Plugins

  Create anonymous users.

• Properties Plugins

  Properties plugins generate property sheets for users.

• Groups Plugins

  Groups plugins determine the groups to which a user belongs.

• Roles Plugins

  Roles plugins determine the global roles which a user has.

• Update Plugins

  Update plugins allow the user or the application to update the user's properties.

• Validation Plugins

  Validation plugins specify allowable values for user properties (e.g., minimum password length, allowed characters, etc.)

• User_Enumeration Plugins

  Enumeration plugins allow querying users by ID, and searching for users who match particular criteria.

• User_Adder Plugins

  User Adder plugins allow the Pluggable Auth Service to create users.

• Group_Enumeration Plugins

  Enumeration plugins allow querying groups by ID.

• Role_Enumeration Plugins

  Enumeration plugins allow querying roles by ID.

• Role_Assigner Plugins

  Role Assigner plugins allow the Pluggable Auth Service to assign