com.imaginary.lwp
Interface Authenticator
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- JDBCAuthenticator
- public abstract interface Authenticator
Authenticates a user ID/password pair. Different applications may provide
their own authenticator and specify them in their LWP configuration
file using the "imaginary.lwp.authenticator" property.
Last modified $Date: 1999/10/06 03:19:10 $
- Version:
- $Revision: 1.1 $
- Author:
- George Reese (borg@imaginary.com)
Method Summary |
void |
authenticate(java.lang.String uid,
java.lang.String pw)
Authenticates the specified user ID against the specified
password. |
authenticate
public void authenticate(java.lang.String uid,
java.lang.String pw)
throws AuthenticationException
- Authenticates the specified user ID against the specified
password.
- Parameters:
uid
- the user ID to authenticatepw
- the password to use for authentication- Throws:
- AuthenticationException - the
user ID failed to authenticate against the specified password