class twisted.cred.checkers.ICredentialsChecker(Interface): (source)
Known implementations: twisted.conch.checkers.SSHProtocolChecker, twisted.conch.checkers.SSHPublicKeyChecker, twisted.conch.checkers.SSHPublicKeyDatabase, twisted.conch.checkers.UNIXPasswordDatabase, twisted.cred.checkers.AllowAnonymousAccess, twisted.cred.checkers.FilePasswordDB, twisted.cred.checkers.InMemoryUsernamePasswordDatabaseDontUse, twisted.mail.maildir.DirdbmDatabase, twisted.plugins.cred_unix.UNIXChecker
An object that can check sub-interfaces of ICredentials.
| Attribute | credentialInterfaces | A list of sub-interfaces of ICredentials which specifies which I may check. |
| Method | requestAvatarId | Validate credentials and produce an avatar ID. |
A list of sub-interfaces of ICredentials which specifies which I may check.
Validate credentials and produce an avatar ID.
| Parameters | credentials | something which implements one of the interfaces in credentialInterfaces. |
| Returns | a Deferred which will fire with a bytes that identifies an avatar, an empty tuple to specify an authenticated anonymous user (provided as twisted.cred.checkers.ANONYMOUS) or fail with UnauthorizedLogin. Alternatively, return the result itself. | |
| See Also | twisted.cred.credentials | |