[horde] Authentication of external applications using Horde.

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:

> List,
>
> I want to know, is there already a feature, which will enable an  
> external application to authenticate using Horde and continue to  
> work using the credentials provided.

Not currently. We currently only offer our RPC interface for remote  
API interaction - and this requires the user's credentials to be  
passed via HTTP Auth.



> Now a days, many applications on Internet are allowing to  
> authenticate using Google or Facebook. On the similar lines, is  
> there a possibility of integrating the login with Horde?

We have a library for interacting with Facebook, but do not have any  
Horde authentication backend to allow the "Login with Facebook"  
functionality. It would theoretically be possible to implement such a  
Horde authentication backend but this would only work in certain cases  
- e.g., if email is part of your system (and requires a discrete user  
login), this would not be able to authenticate you to your IMAP server  
since the actual credentials would never be actually passed to Horde -  
even if they did happen to be the same as your FB credentials.

> In simple, when clicked on external application for Login using  
> Horde, it will visit our Horde setup, authenticates and returns to  
> the external application with userid (on successful login).

Oh, wait. Are you asking if Horde can be authenticated to using a  
third party or if Horde can actually act as the authentication agent  
for some other application?



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mike
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