<?php
/**
 * @package MediaWiki
 */
# Copyright (C) 2004 Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>
# http://www.mediawiki.org/
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# 
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/**
 * Authentication plugin interface. Instantiate a subclass of AuthPlugin
 * and set $wgAuth to it to authenticate against some external tool.
 *
 * The default behavior is not to do anything, and use the local user
 * database for all authentication. A subclass can require that all
 * accounts authenticate externally, or use it only as a fallback; also
 * you can transparently create internal wiki accounts the first time
 * someone logs in who can be authenticated externally.
 *
 * This interface is new, and might change a bit before 1.4.0 final is
 * done...
 *
 * @package MediaWiki
 */
class AuthPlugin {
	/**
	 * Check whether there exists a user account with the given name.
	 * The name will be normalized to MediaWiki's requirements, so
	 * you might need to munge it (for instance, for lowercase initial
	 * letters).
	 *
	 * @param string $username
	 * @return bool
	 * @access public
	 */
	function userExists( $username ) {
		# Override this!
		return false;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Check if a username+password pair is a valid login.
	 * The name will be normalized to MediaWiki's requirements, so
	 * you might need to munge it (for instance, for lowercase initial
	 * letters).
	 *
	 * @param string $username
	 * @param string $password
	 * @return bool
	 * @access public
	 */
	function authenticate( $username, $password ) {
		# Override this!
		return false;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Return true if the wiki should create a new local account automatically
	 * when asked to login a user who doesn't exist locally but does in the
	 * external auth database.
	 *
	 * If you don't automatically create accounts, you must still create
	 * accounts in some way. It's not possible to authenticate without
	 * a local account.
	 *
	 * This is just a question, and shouldn't perform any actions.
	 *
	 * @return bool
	 * @access public
	 */
	function autoCreate() {
		return false;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Return true to prevent logins that don't authenticate here from being
	 * checked against the local database's password fields.
	 *
	 * This is just a question, and shouldn't perform any actions.
	 *
	 * @return bool
	 * @access public
	 */
	function strict() {
		return false;
	}
	
	/**
	 * When creating a user account, optionally fill in preferences and such.
	 * For instance, you might pull the email address or real name from the
	 * external user database.
	 *
	 * The User object is passed by reference so it can be modified; don't
	 * forget the & on your function declaration.
	 *
	 * @param User $user
	 * @access public
	 */
	function initUser( &$user ) {
		# Override this to do something.
	}
}

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