[horde] MIMP authentication

[Kevin M. Myer]

Quoting Jason Dixon <jason at dixongroup.net>:

> Yes, I see that it works fine, it's just not a very attractive login  
> screen for normal users.  I hate to uglify the whole experience for a 
>  handful of users.  If there is indeed no other way around this, I  
> guess I'll just install another instance of Horde/MIMP for these 
> users.

Using a PDA to read mail has rarely been a pretty experience.  The MIMP
interface has been designed to be lightweight and simple, and probably not
generally for normal user login, through a full-fledged web browser.  As
stated, if you have a centralized authentication system in place (like LDAP)
that IMP, MIMP, and other Horde apps authenticate to, use that system for
authentication to Horde and you can still achieve a single login for mobile
users if they goto http://example.com/horde/mimp/login.php without uglifiying
the whole experience for most other users.  Or if you don't care about # of
Megabytes downloaded to your PDA, spruce up the MIMP login screen a bit (i.e.
make it heavier) and use MIMP for authentication.

Kevin


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Kevin M. Myer
Senior Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org