AbstractXWikiAuthService (XWiki Platform - Old Core 14.4 API)

java.lang.Object
- com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.AbstractXWikiAuthService

All Implemented Interfaces:

XWikiAuthService

Direct Known Subclasses:

XWikiAuthServiceImpl
```
public abstract class AbstractXWikiAuthService
extends Object
implements XWikiAuthService
```
Common methods useful to all Authentication services implementations.

Version:

$Id: 336c0f8e256582abc02e3c2cc4b92c1d926df2bf $

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

AbstractXWikiAuthService()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`protected Principal`	`authenticateSuperAdmin(String password, XWikiContext context)`
`protected boolean`	`isSuperAdmin(String username)`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.xpn.xwiki.user.api.XWikiAuthService
authenticate, checkAuth, checkAuth, showLogin

- Constructor Detail
  - AbstractXWikiAuthService
```
public AbstractXWikiAuthService()
```
- Method Detail
  - isSuperAdmin
```
protected boolean isSuperAdmin(String username)
```
    Parameters:
    
    username - the username to check for superadmin access. Examples: "xwiki:XWiki.superadmin", "XWiki.superAdmin", "superadmin", etc
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the username is that of the superadmin (whatever the case) or false otherwise
  - authenticateSuperAdmin
```
protected Principal authenticateSuperAdmin(String password,
                                           XWikiContext context)
```
    Parameters:
    
    password - the superadmin password to check against the superadmin password located in XWiki's config file
    
    context - the XWiki context object, allowing access to XWiki's config
    
    Returns:
    
    a null Principal is the user hasn't been validated as Superadmin or a Super Admin Principal otherwise