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52 <td><strong>Module</strong></td>
53 <td class="class-name-in-header">MCollective::Security</td>
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59 lib/mcollective/security.rb
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63 lib/mcollective/security/base.rb
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81 <a href="Security.html">Security</a> is implimented using a module
82 structure and installations can configure which module they want to use.
85 <a href="Security.html">Security</a> modules deal with various aspects of
86 authentication and authorization:
89 <li>Determines if a filter excludes this host from dealing with a request
92 <li>Serialization and Deserialization of messages
95 <li>Validation of messages against keys, certificates or whatever the class
99 <li>Encoding and Decoding of messages
104 To impliment a new security class using <a href="SSL.html">SSL</a> for
105 example you would inherit from the base class and only impliment:
122 Each of these methods should increment various stats counters, see the
123 default MCollective::Security::Psk module for examples of this
126 Filtering can be extended by providing a new validate_filter? method.
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145 Class <a href="Security/Base.html" class="link">MCollective::Security::Base</a><br />
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