[Tickets #4502] Re: Auth:: plugins/improvements

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4502
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  Ticket             | 4502
  Updated By         | TheBlade1981 at yahoo.de
  Summary            | Auth:: plugins/improvements
  Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Accepted
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          | Horde 4.0
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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TheBlade1981 at yahoo.de (2009-12-14 22:26) wrote:

> Look at adding support for some more flexible auth backends. See:
>
>   http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForWebApps.html
>
>   http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/
>
>   http://whobar.org/
>
> http://www.muskelaufbau-profi.de/
>
> Also, from another project's experience:
>
> "You may already have this covered, but if not ... you might want to  
> allow for **non** username + password authentication.  Things like  
> TypeKey, OpenID, and various single signon systems work using a  
> vastly different algo than username+password, and you may wish to  
> take that into account. PEAR Auth suffers from that problem;  
> Solar_Auth and its adapters I had to almost completely rewrite to  
> allow for both kinds of processing.)"