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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+
+package org.opendaylight.controller.netconf.auth;
+
+public class AuthConstants {
+
+ /**
+ * This property should be set for every implementation of AuthService published to OSGi.
+ * Netconf SSH will pick the service with highest preference in case of multiple services present in OSGi.
+ */
+ public static final String SERVICE_PREFERENCE_KEY = "preference";
+}