Authentication

How to implement MY authentication mechanism?

• Access to Grid infrastructures is based on security tokens current implementations for
• Grid Proxy
• VOMS Proxy
• Before interacting with the Infrastructure such “authentication tokens”
• need to be created (as Object in the Java-sense)
• validated (check files, passphrases ...)

UI Components

The Grid Authentication View shows all currently available tokens.

The New Token Wizard helps to create new tokens of any registered type.

VOMS-specific wizard page

VOMS-specific Info-Dialog

Important Extension points

Core extension point

eu.geclipse.core.authTokens

Provides a scheme for defining new authentication token types by id, name, descriptor and corresponding wizard

UI extension point

eu.geclipse.ui.authTokenUI

Provides a scheme for defining a wizard for creating new tokens of a specific type and for creating an UI-factory that may provide an info-dialog for these tokens

Interfaces to implement

eu.geclipse.core.auth.IAuthenticationToken

Implement this to represent your token (in fact it is recommended to extend eu.geclipse.core.auth.AbstractAuthenticationToken)

eu.geclipse.core.auth-IAuthenticationTokenDescription

Implement this in order to hold all parameters that are needed for a successful token creation

eu.geclipse.ui.IAuthTokenUIFactory

Implement this in order to create token specific UI components (in fact it is recommended to extend eu.geclipse.ui.AbstractAuthTokenUIFactory)

org.eclipse.ui.INewWizard

Implement this in order to provide a wizard that can be used to create a new token of a specific type