public interface WebConsoleSecurityProvider
WebConsoleSecurityProvider
is a service interface allowing
to use an external system to authenticate users before granting access to the
Web Console.Object authenticate(String username, String password)
username
- The name of the user presented by the clientpassword
- The password presented by the clientnull
must be returned from this method.boolean authorize(Object user, String role)
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 roletrue
if the user is given permission for the given
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