External Authentication Plugins

External authentication plugin is a type of Iotellect Server plugin that allows Iotellect Server users to authenticate themselves through external systems, such as Active Directory or LDAP server.

External authentication plugin's main class must implement AuthenticationPlugin interface. However, most plugin implementations are inherited from AbstractAuthPlugin.

The AuthenticationPlugin interface includes just a single method:

AuthenticationResult authenticate(CallerController caller, String username, String password, String code, String state, String provider).

This method accepts a username and password provided by a person or a component trying to authenticate. In case of successful authentication, the method must return a name of a Iotellect Server user those permissions will be used to authorize the authenticating person/component.

The resulting username must be encapsulated into AuthenticationResult object by calling its AuthenticationResult(String username) constructor.

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