com.webmethods.portal.service.dir

Interface IDirAuthenticatorEx

All Superinterfaces:

IDirAuthenticator

All Known Subinterfaces:

IDirPrincipalProvider

public interface IDirAuthenticatorEx
extends IDirAuthenticator

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static interface	IDirAuthenticatorEx.IDirAuthenticationCallback

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IDirAuthenticatorEx.IDirAuthenticationCallback	authenticateUserEx(IDirUser user, Object credentials) Attempts to authenticate the IDirectoryUser with the supplied credentials.

Methods inherited from interface com.webmethods.portal.service.dir.IDirAuthenticator

authenticateUser

Method Detail

authenticateUserEx

IDirAuthenticatorEx.IDirAuthenticationCallback authenticateUserEx(IDirUser user,
                                                                  Object credentials)
                                                           throws PortalException,
                                                                  AuthenticationException

Attempts to authenticate the IDirectoryUser with the supplied credentials. If this succeeds, then the function will return whether the user was authenticted with cached credentials, otherwise an Authentication Exception will be thrown.

Parameters:

user -

credentials -

Throws:

PortalException

AuthenticationException