[gollem] gollem as a filemanager for filesystems local to the webserver?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Liam Hoekenga <liamr@umich.edu>:

> Authentication to the file system?  Or authentication to the
> application?

I meant to the file system.

> We're running AFS, and we're in the process of writing an apache module
> to give the webserver authenticated access (as the user) to the file
> system once users have logged on and obtained kerberos tickets (which 
> our web authentication suite does..  it's the same way we get tickets to
> authenticate to our kerberized IMAP servers)

Ah, okay. Sounds pretty specific to you guys, but cool anyway. :)

> There don't look to be many actual calls to FTP functions, so, I'm
> thinking we could fairly easily do a gollem/lib/Driver.php and
> gollem/lib/Driver/ftp.php, file.php, (or maybe like ufs.php, afs.php),
> etc.

Yup. I'd do Gollem_Driver_afs for your needs, leaving Gollem_Driver_file 
for standard filesystem manipulation...

-chuck

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