com.atlassian.crowd.integration.atlassianuser
Class CrowdAuthenticator

java.lang.Object
  com.atlassian.crowd.integration.atlassianuser.CrowdAuthenticator

public class CrowdAuthenticator
extends Object

Crowd authenticator that contacts the Crowd security server to validate a username and password.

Constructor Summary

CrowdAuthenticator()

Method Summary

boolean	authenticate(String username, String password) Authenticates verses the Crowd security server.
Repository	getRepository() Gets the repository the authenticator
void	init(HashMap args) Used to initialize the instance via the configuration.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CrowdAuthenticator

public CrowdAuthenticator()

Method Detail

authenticate

public boolean authenticate(String username,
                            String password)
                     throws EntityException

Authenticates verses the Crowd security server.

Parameters:

username - username

password - password

Returns:

true if the username and password were successfully authenticated, false otherwise

Throws:

EntityException

getRepository

public Repository getRepository()

Gets the repository the authenticator

init

public void init(HashMap args)
          throws ConfigurationException

Used to initialize the instance via the configuration.

Parameters:

args -

Throws:

ConfigurationException