[dev] horde auth - password

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:42:18PM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> perhaps it makes sense to build some sort of password container for horde. If a 
> user authenticates against horde with horde's configured auth mechanism (imap, 
> ftp, mcal whatever) every horde app can get the necessary password from this 
> container.
> You then only have to authenticate once and can use gollem, imp, a forward or a 
> password change module without authenticating again.
Yes if you want to make it very portable to any sort of setup, then this would
be the best solution. But if you use all the modules to only access one server
then you probably only habe one password for all the services. So you only need
to store this password and make it your horde password.

gaudenz