Custom Authentication

[vhp1360]

Hi developers,
I tried to change jupyterhub authentication to make new password those difference of Linux users password.
according this page, could you please let me know

1. we should work on which file?
2. what is "SuperSecureAuthenticator" class and is it a sample? if yes we should return itself result to which function of which file?

many thanks.

[minrk]

we should work on which file?

any file, such as your own Python module. Authenticators can be defined in any Python module, or even in your jupyterhub_config.py if it's a small customization.

For example, if you have a mymodule.py with the class MyAuthenticator(Authenticator), your jupyterhub_config.py would contain: `c.JupyterHub.authenticator_class = 'mymodule.MyAuthenticator'.

what is "SuperSecureAuthenticator" class and is it a sample?

That is an example of a simple custom authenticator. It authenticates users where their password is the same as their username. When you write your own authenticator, you should follow a similar pattern, overriding the .authenticate method to implement your own username+password validation.