Uses of Interface
org.apache.shiro.authc.Authenticator

Packages that use Authenticator

org.apache.shiro.authc	Core interfaces and exceptions concerning Authentication (the act of logging-in).
org.apache.shiro.authc.pam	Support for PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, which is the capability to authenticate a user against multiple configurable (pluggable) modules (Shiro calls these Realms).
org.apache.shiro.mgt	Provides the master SecurityManager interface and a default implementation hierarchy for managing all aspects of Shiro's functionality in an application.

Uses of Authenticator in org.apache.shiro.authc

Classes in org.apache.shiro.authc that implement Authenticator

class

AbstractAuthenticator Superclass for almost all Authenticator implementations that performs the common work around authentication attempts.

Uses of Authenticator in org.apache.shiro.authc.pam

Classes in org.apache.shiro.authc.pam that implement Authenticator

class

ModularRealmAuthenticator A ModularRealmAuthenticator delgates account lookups to a pluggable (modular) collection of Realms.

Uses of Authenticator in org.apache.shiro.mgt

Subinterfaces of Authenticator in org.apache.shiro.mgt

interface

SecurityManager A SecurityManager executes all security operations for all Subjects (aka users) across a single application.

Classes in org.apache.shiro.mgt that implement Authenticator

class	AuthenticatingSecurityManager Shiro support of a SecurityManager class hierarchy that delegates all authentication operations to a wrapped Authenticator instance.
class	AuthorizingSecurityManager Shiro support of a SecurityManager class hierarchy that delegates all authorization (access control) operations to a wrapped Authorizer instance.
class	CachingSecurityManager A very basic starting point for the SecurityManager interface that merely provides logging and caching support.
class	DefaultSecurityManager The Shiro framework's default concrete implementation of the SecurityManager interface, based around a collection of Realms.
class	RealmSecurityManager Shiro support of a SecurityManager class hierarchy based around a collection of Realms.
class	SessionsSecurityManager Shiro support of a SecurityManager class hierarchy that delegates all session operations to a wrapped SessionManager instance.

Methods in org.apache.shiro.mgt that return Authenticator

Authenticator

AuthenticatingSecurityManager.getAuthenticator() Returns the delegate Authenticator instance that this SecurityManager uses to perform all authentication operations.

Methods in org.apache.shiro.mgt with parameters of type Authenticator

void	AuthenticatingSecurityManager.setAuthenticator(Authenticator authenticator) Sets the delegate Authenticator instance that this SecurityManager uses to perform all authentication operations.