[devel at bb.net] Custom authentication

[Maciek Dems]

Hello,

I need to write a authentication module for Buildbot WWW using external 
database. I have no access to the plain-text passwords, however, I have got 
a callable:

check_password(user, pass) -> bool

that checks if the provided password is correct.

The problem is, I don't know how to integrate it with the Buildbot auth 
infrastructure. I understand that I need to derive buildbot.www.auth.AuthBase 
and write custom getLoginResource method. However, this is the point where I'm 
stuck. I don't understand what this login resource actually is.

Actually I think, it would be beneficial to provide an AuthBase subclass that 
gets a password-checking callable as an argument. I can do this and share the 
patch if someone explains me how.

Thanks and regards,
Maciek

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