11.1. Pluggable Authentication Service

The Pluggable Authentication Service (PAS), which is used by Plone 2.5 and later for user management. This document is aimed towards administrators who need to configure user management in a Plone site and towards developers who are interested in PAS plugins.

1. Introduction
2. Features and interfaces
3. The important interfaces
4. Configuring PAS
5. Configuring an individual PAS plugin
6. Concepts
7. The user object
8. User creation
9. User factory plugin
10. Properties plugins
11. Group plugins
12. Roles plugin
13. Authorisation algorithm
14. Credential extraction
15. Credential authentication
16. Challenges
17. PAS eats exceptions
18. Plugins
    1. Plugin Interfaces
       1. List of Plugin Interfaces
    2. Plugin Types
       1. Extraction Plugins
       2. Authentication Plugins
       3. Challenge Plugins
       4. Update Credentials Plugins
       5. Reset Credentials Plugins
       6. Properties Plugins
       7. Groups Plugins
       8. Roles Plugins
       9. User_Enumeration Plugins
       10. User_Adder Plugins
       11. Group_Enumeration Plugins
       12. Role_Enumeration Plugins
       13. Role_Assigner Plugins

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