[horde] Authentication of external applications using Horde.

[ANANT S ATHAVALE]

----- Message from Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> ---------
     Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:14:08 -0500
     From: Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
Reply-To: mrubinsk at horde.org
  Subject: Re: [horde] Authentication of external applications using Horde.
       To: horde at lists.horde.org


> 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?

YES.  I am looking for this only.  Horde to act as the authentication  
agent for some other application.

>
>
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> mike
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