credential: Base interface

credential/credential.go

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+package credential
+
+import "github.com/hashicorp/vault/logical"
+
+// Backend interface must be implemented for an authentication
+// mechanism to be made available. Requests can flow through credential
+// backends to be converted into a token. The logic of each backend is flexible,
+// and this is allows for user/password, public/private key, and OAuth schemes
+// to all be supported. The credential implementations must also be logical
+// backends, allowing them to be mounted and manipulated like procfs.
+type Backend interface {
+	logical.Backend
+}
+
+// Factory is the factory function to create a logical backend.
+type Factory func(map[string]string) (Backend, error)