Automatic login based on the IP address

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Xavier Dutoit	Monday 04 September 2006 9:13:41 am Hi, I'd like to be able to automatically log in anyone with a specific IP address (or belonging to a specific ip range). For instance, everyone connecting with 192.168.. would be the user staff instead of being anonymous. I suppose than writing a LoginHandler (as done for the cookieuser extension) would do it, wouldn't it ? Has it be done already ? Would it be useful for some of you ? X+ http://www.sydesy.com
Clemens T	Monday 04 September 2006 9:43:54 am I'd say: don't do it. Because you could get reaal security problems when you try something like this. Greets, Clemens ps: sorry for the brief comment, gtg.
Xavier Dutoit	Monday 04 September 2006 10:12:51 am Hi, Could you elaborate ? I think I should inspire myself more on the sso instead of the cookieuser: http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/setting_user_role_based_on_ip_address http://www.sydesy.com
Clemens T	Monday 04 September 2006 3:51:01 pm Sure Xavier! For example: http://www.inetprivacy.com/a4proxy/fake-ip-address.htm Good luck! Clemens
Xavier Dutoit	Tuesday 05 September 2006 2:40:14 am Hi, The $_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST'] is going to contain the ip of the proxy, isn't it ? That was the variable I intended to test for my purpose, and if one of the admin put the IP address of a public proxy, then that's not my problem. In other word, if ou put the IP address of the gateway of a company and say that's the user "partner", every pc connected via that gateway is going to been see as a partner, and that's what I want. Does it make sense ? X+ http://www.sydesy.com
Clemens T	Tuesday 05 September 2006 4:22:28 am Yes, that makes sense. And I think you should write your own LoginHandler, yes. For someone with your experience this shouldn't be too hard ;). Grtz