carbond.security.Authenticator

An Authenticator is an abstract class representing a method of authentication. Authenticators implement an authenticate method which takes a request and returns a user object.

Properties

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Methods

authenticate
Arguments	req (HttpRequest) – the HttpRequest object to authenticate
Return object	an object representing the authenticated user

isRootUser
Arguments	user (object) – the user object to test for root equivalence
Return boolean	true if the supplied user is a root user

getAuthenticationHeaders
Return [string]	an array of authentication header names