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Creating a Java Class that Implements AuthInterface
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By default, Metacat supports the use of LDAP as an external authentication
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mechanism. It does this by supplying a class (``AuthLDAP``) that implements
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authentication via an external LDAP server. However, administrators have the
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choice of replacing LDAP with a different system for authentication because
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Metacat is written such that this Authentication provider is replaceable with
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another class that implements the same interface (``AuthInterface``). As
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an Administrator, you have the choice to provide an alternative implementation
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of ``AuthInterface`` and then configuring ``metacat.properties`` to use that
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class for authentication instead of LDAP.
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