The easiest is generally to start from an existing authenticator. I
would suggest you to simply take
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/sandbox/tree/master/authenticators/xwiki-authentication-headers
and modify it for you needs either as a new authenticator or as a new
version of the generic headers authenticator.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Christian Fiddick
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to implement a custom headers authenticator for XWiki Enterprise 5.1 
> (it will essentially be like the authenticator in 
> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/sandbox/tree/master/authenticators/xwiki-authentication-headers),
>  but I can't figure out how to do this. Can anyone point me in the right 
> direction? The custom authenticator documentation makes it sound trivial, and 
> I'm sure it is, but I don't know how to go about actually implementing 
> XWikiAuthService (or extending XWikiAuthServiceImpl for that matter) since I 
> don't know where these classes are physically located. I'm trying to learn 
> Maven simultaneously and it's pretty overwhelming. I'd rather not have to 
> read an entire Maven guide just to figure out how to extend a class for XWiki.
>
> Thanks!
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