interface UserAuthenticationInterface

Same name in other branches
  1. 10 core/modules/user/src/UserAuthenticationInterface.php \Drupal\user\UserAuthenticationInterface

An interface for validating user authentication credentials.

Hierarchy

Expanded class hierarchy of UserAuthenticationInterface

All classes that implement UserAuthenticationInterface

3 files declare their use of UserAuthenticationInterface
BasicAuth.php in core/modules/basic_auth/src/Authentication/Provider/BasicAuth.php
UserAuthenticationController.php in core/modules/user/src/Controller/UserAuthenticationController.php
UserLoginForm.php in core/modules/user/src/Form/UserLoginForm.php

File

core/modules/user/src/UserAuthenticationInterface.php, line 8

Namespace

Drupal\user
View source 
interface UserAuthenticationInterface {
    
    /**
     * Validates user authentication credentials.
     *
     * @param string $identifier
     *   The user identifier to authenticate. Usually the username.
     *
     * @return Drupal\User\UserInterface|false
     *   The user account on success, or FALSE on failure to authenticate.
     */
    public function lookupAccount($identifier) : UserInterface|false;
    
    /**
     * Validates user authentication credentials for an account.
     *
     * This can be used where the account has already been located using the login
     * credentials.
     *
     * @param \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface $account
     *   The account to authenticate.
     * @param string $password
     *   A plain-text password, such as trimmed text from form values.
     *
     * @return bool
     *   TRUE on success, FALSE on failure.
     */
    public function authenticateAccount(UserInterface $account, string $password) : bool;

}

Members

Title Modifiers Object type Summary Overrides
UserAuthenticationInterface::authenticateAccount public function Validates user authentication credentials for an account. 1
UserAuthenticationInterface::lookupAccount public function Validates user authentication credentials. 1

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