[horde] Authentication of external applications using Horde.

[Jan Schneider]

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

> ----- 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.
>

https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6186

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Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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