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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 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.netconf.nettyutil.handler.ssh.authentication;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import org.apache.sshd.ClientSession;
+
+/**
+ * Class providing authentication facility to SSH handler.
+ */
+public abstract class AuthenticationHandler {
+
+ public abstract String getUsername();
+
+ public abstract org.apache.sshd.client.future.AuthFuture authenticate(ClientSession session)
+ throws IOException;
+}