Github user necouchman commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/guacamole-client/pull/181#discussion_r176924283
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extensions/guacamole-auth-quickconnect/src/main/java/org/apache/guacamole/auth/quickconnect/QuickConnectAuthenticationProvider.java
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+
+package org.apache.guacamole.auth.quickconnect;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.apache.guacamole.GuacamoleException;
+import org.apache.guacamole.net.auth.AuthenticatedUser;
+import org.apache.guacamole.net.auth.Credentials;
+import org.apache.guacamole.net.auth.credentials.CredentialsInfo;
+import
org.apache.guacamole.net.auth.credentials.GuacamoleInvalidCredentialsException;
+import org.apache.guacamole.net.auth.simple.SimpleAuthenticationProvider;
+import org.apache.guacamole.net.auth.UserContext;
+import org.apache.guacamole.protocol.GuacamoleConfiguration;
+
+/**
+ * Class providing the necessary hooks into the Guacamole Client
authentication
+ * process so that the QuickConnect functionality can be initialized and
be used
+ * throughout the web client.
+ */
+public class QuickConnectAuthenticationProvider extends
SimpleAuthenticationProvider {
+
+ /**
+ * userContext for this authentication provider.
+ */
+ private UserContext userContext;
+
+ @Override
+ public String getIdentifier() {
+ return "quickconnect";
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * For QuickConnect, authenticateUser simply returns null because this
+ * extension is designed to provide only a connection directory to
users
+ * that are already authenticated and not any actual authentication.
+ *
+ * @param credentials
+ * Credentials object passed in from Guacamole login.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * Returns null, which causes the client to move on to the next
+ * module.
+ */
+ @Override
+ public AuthenticatedUser authenticateUser(Credentials credentials)
+ throws GuacamoleException {
+
+ String username = credentials.getUsername();
+ if (username == null || username.isEmpty())
+ throw new GuacamoleInvalidCredentialsException("You must
login.", CredentialsInfo.USERNAME_PASSWORD);
--- End diff --
Good question, to which I do not have an answer. Removed.
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