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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hive.service.auth;
+
+import javax.security.sasl.AuthenticationException;
+
+public interface PasswdAuthenticationProvider {
+
+  /**
+   * The Authenticate method is called by the HiveServer2 authentication layer
+   * to authenticate users for their requests.
+   * If a user is to be granted, return nothing/throw nothing.
+   * When a user is to be disallowed, throw an appropriate {@link AuthenticationException}.
+   * <p/>
+   * For an example implementation, see {@link LdapAuthenticationProviderImpl}.
+   *
+   * @param user     The username received over the connection request
+   * @param password The password received over the connection request
+   *
+   * @throws AuthenticationException When a user is found to be
+   *                                 invalid by the implementation
+   */
+  void Authenticate(String user, String password) throws AuthenticationException;
+}