/*
* Copyright (c) 2012 Eike Stepper (Berlin, Germany) and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation
*/
package org.eclipse.net4j.util.security;
/**
* Authenticates users.
*
* @author Eike Stepper
* @since 3.3
*/
public interface IAuthenticator
{
/**
* Authenticates the user with the passed <code>userID</code> by checking whether the supplied <code>password</code>
* matches the password <i>stored</i> for this user.
* <p>
* The implementation is required to throw a {@link SecurityException} if the passwords do <b>not</b> match.
*/
public void authenticate(String userID, char[] password) throws SecurityException;
}