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How to Create and Enable Custom User Checkers

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How to Create and Enable Custom User Checkers
- Creating a Custom User Checker
- Enabling the Custom User Checker

How to Create and Enable Custom User Checkers¶

During the authentication of a user, additional checks might be required to verify if the identified user is allowed to log in. By defining a custom user checker, you can define per firewall which checker should be used.

Creating a Custom User Checker¶

User checkers are classes that must implement the Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserCheckerInterface. This interface defines two methods called checkPreAuth() and checkPostAuth() to perform checks before and after user authentication. If one or more conditions are not met, an exception should be thrown which extends the Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\AccountStatusException:

namespace App\Security;

use App\Exception\AccountDeletedException;
use App\Security\User as AppUser;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\AccountExpiredException;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\CustomUserMessageAuthenticationException;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserCheckerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserInterface;

class UserChecker implements UserCheckerInterface
{
    public function checkPreAuth(UserInterface $user)
    {
        if (!$user instanceof AppUser) {
            return;
        }

        // user is deleted, show a generic Account Not Found message.
        if ($user->isDeleted()) {
            throw new AccountDeletedException();
        }
    }

    public function checkPostAuth(UserInterface $user)
    {
        if (!$user instanceof AppUser) {
            return;
        }

        // user account is expired, the user may be notified
        if ($user->isExpired()) {
            throw new AccountExpiredException('...');
        }
    }
}

Enabling the Custom User Checker¶

Next, make sure your user checker is registered as a service. If you’re using the default services.yaml configuration, the service is registered automatically.

All that’s left to do is add the checker to the desired firewall where the value is the service id of your user checker:

YAML

# config/packages/security.yaml

# ...
security:
    firewalls:
        main:
            pattern: ^/
            user_checker: App\Security\UserChecker
            # ...

XML

<!-- config/packages/security.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<srv:container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/security"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:srv="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
        https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">

    <config>
        <!-- ... -->
        <firewall name="main" pattern="^/">
            <user-checker>App\Security\UserChecker</user-checker>
            <!-- ... -->
        </firewall>
    </config>
</srv:container>

PHP

// config/packages/security.php

// ...
use App\Security\UserChecker;

$container->loadFromExtension('security', [
    'firewalls' => [
        'main' => [
            'pattern' => '^/',
            'user_checker' => UserChecker::class,
            // ...
        ],
    ],
]);

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