Authentication Plugin

Overview

An authentication plugin is used to verify a user’s identity to a particular PKI subsystem.

An authentication plugin is generally the second type of plugin called during the life-cycle of a certificate request. Although numerous different authentication plugins may exist, only one may be called during a particular certificate request. The following diagram shows an authentication plugin’s relative position within the scope of an entire PKI server instance:

Built-in Authentication Plugins

PKI server provides several built-in authentication plugins:

• com.netscape.cms.authentication

Creating Authentication Plugin

To create a custom authentication plugin, see Creating Authentication Plugin.

See Also

• com.netscape.certsrv.authentication