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class ICredentialsChecker(Interface): (source)

Known implementations: twisted.conch.checkers.SSHProtocolChecker, twisted.conch.checkers.SSHPublicKeyChecker, twisted.conch.checkers.SSHPublicKeyDatabase, twisted.conch.checkers.UNIXPasswordDatabase, twisted.cred.checkers.AllowAnonymousAccess, twisted.cred.checkers.FilePasswordDB, twisted.cred.checkers.InMemoryUsernamePasswordDatabaseDontUse, twisted.mail.maildir.DirdbmDatabase, twisted.plugins.cred_unix.UNIXChecker

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An object that can check sub-interfaces of ICredentials.
Method requestAvatarId Validate credentials and produce an avatar ID.
Attribute credentialInterfaces A list of sub-interfaces of ICredentials which specifies which I may check.
def requestAvatarId(credentials): (source)
Validate credentials and produce an avatar ID.
Parameters
credentialssomething which implements one of the interfaces in credentialInterfaces.
Returns
a Deferred which will fire with a bytes that identifies an avatar, an empty tuple to specify an authenticated anonymous user (provided as twisted.cred.checkers.ANONYMOUS) or fail with UnauthorizedLogin. Alternatively, return the result itself.
See Also
twisted.cred.credentials
credentialInterfaces = (source)
A list of sub-interfaces of ICredentials which specifies which I may check.