providers

Documentation

Overview

Package providers implements the mechanism to load authentication providers to the system either built in authentication or custom once. These are external plugins, which can extend the application authentication capabilities beyond built in once.

Index

• type KeyChain
• type Provider
  • func (p *Provider) Authenticate(username string) (users []KeyChain, err error)

Types

type KeyChain

type KeyChain struct {
	Username string   `json:"username"`
	Keys     []string `json:"keys"`
}

type Provider

type Provider struct {
	Name          string
	Configuration interface{}
}

Provider defines the structure for provider specific configuration.

func (*Provider) Authenticate

func (p *Provider) Authenticate(username string) (users []KeyChain, err error)

Authenticate defines the logic used to determine the authentication provider and translation of the data between main application and provider