[horde] Preauthenticate Hook - problems with retrieving $userId

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt787 at googlemail.com>:

> so, well, the examples in the preauthentication hook, where the userId is
> checked to be not equal "foo" (or Joe?) are not working for me. Does that
> mean my config of horde is wrong or that the examples are not right anymore?
> Either $userId is supposed to be not empty (as it is used in the
> preauthenticate hook example) or it should be used later (then I do get the
> example wrong)?

$userId can be empty.  That is perfectly valid.  This is a  
**pre**authentication hook - it takes place before authentication,  
when there may be no user id available (i.e. transparent  
authentication).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]