log.debug("Importing %s", plugin)

    if not plugin.startswith(u'kallithea.lib.auth_modules.auth_'):

        parts = plugin.split(u'.lib.auth_modules.auth_', 1)

        if len(parts) == 2:

            _module, pn = parts

            plugin = u'kallithea.lib.auth_modules.auth_' + pn

    PLUGIN_CLASS_NAME = "KallitheaAuthPlugin"

    try:

        module = importlib.import_module(plugin)

    except (ImportError, TypeError):

        log.error(traceback.format_exc())

        # TODO: make this more error prone, if by some accident we screw up

        # the plugin name, the crash is pretty bad and hard to recover

        raise

    log.debug("Loaded auth plugin from %s (module:%s, file:%s)",

              plugin, module.__name__, module.__file__)

    pluginclass = getattr(module, PLUGIN_CLASS_NAME)

    if not issubclass(pluginclass, KallitheaAuthPluginBase):

        raise TypeError("Authentication class %s.KallitheaAuthPlugin is not "

                        "a subclass of %s" % (plugin, KallitheaAuthPluginBase))

    plugin = pluginclass()

        raise TypeError("Authentication class %s.KallitheaAuthPluginBase "

                        "has overridden the plugin_settings method, which is "

                        "forbidden." % plugin)

    return plugin

def get_auth_plugins():

    """Return a list of instances of plugins that are available and enabled"""

    auth_plugins = []

    for plugin_name in Setting.get_by_name("auth_plugins").app_settings_value:

        try:

            plugin = loadplugin(plugin_name)

        except Exception:

            log.exception('Failed to load authentication module %s' % (plugin_name))

        else:

            auth_plugins.append(plugin)

    return auth_plugins

def authenticate(username, password, environ=None):

    """

    Authentication function used for access control,

    It tries to authenticate based on enabled authentication modules.