Monday 08 January 2007 3:47:34 pm
After a little thought recently about shared authentication the other day. I arrived at this idea.
I need xyz application to share authentication with zxy application. This is a need / topic that continues to arise all the time between all kinds of applications. What you need is a flexible way to authenticate, from many different sources, using a system which acts as a connector between different applications, like provides LDAP. It is a standard for this kind of authentication, all an applications need is a connector to LDAP and support for it in their application's authentication/user/etc systems. Great news, eZ publish supports ldap! The next question is does your application? If so why not avoid a static solution with a flexible solution. With a single search I found that a few people have also needed 'phpBB' + ldap support. It looks like it's only a matter of setting up and configuring ldap services, groups, accounts (possible import..) and configure each application to use ldap as the storage and retrieval of authentication. I thought of this as a result of solution searching for shared authentication using horde and wordpress oddly enough. Problem reduced, not eliminated? Your thoughts ...
//kracker <i>Penn & Teller - ******** ...</i>
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