SERVER-7455 Common internal cluster auth function

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/db/auth/security_key.h b/src/mongo/db/auth/security_key.h
index e261123dcea..e62bb3f32fd 100644
--- a/src/mongo/db/auth/security_key.h
+++ b/src/mongo/db/auth/security_key.h
@@ -18,9 +18,28 @@
 
 #include <string>
 
+#include "mongo/client/dbclientinterface.h"
+
 namespace mongo {
 
     /**
+     * Internal secret key info.
+     */
+    struct AuthInfo {
+        AuthInfo();
+        std::string user;
+        std::string pwd;
+    };
+    extern AuthInfo internalSecurity; // set at startup and not changed after initialization.
+
+    /**
+     * This method authenticates to another cluster member using appropriate
+     * authentication data
+     * @return true if the authentication was succesful
+     */
+    extern bool authenticateInternalUser(DBClientWithCommands* conn);
+
+    /**
      * This method checks the validity of filename as a security key, hashes its
      * contents, and stores it in the internalSecurity variable.  Prints an
      * error message to the logs if there's an error.