[imp] auth question

[Robin P. Blanchard]

if usernames and passwords are stored in php session management, can't
those variables be passed on to other modules?

 
> Currently there's no way to have one login for all horde apps, because some
> backends behind the apps (imap server, local filesystem) need an own
> authentication.
> We already discussed having a sort of login repository that contains all of the
> users logins and stores them in a secret way so that you only have to login
> once. But there's no work done yet.
> 
> Jan.
> 
> Zitat von "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>:
> 
> > i've got horde/imp 2.3.7-cvs (from earlier today) installed and
> > running just great on a freebsd-4.3stable box with apache-1.3.20 and
> > php-4.0.5
> >
> > i'm trying to figure out the best way for horde to have some sort of
> > unified
> > login.
> >
> > in horde/config/registry.php i uncommented the following two lines
> >
> >       $this->registry['auth']['login'] = 'imp';
> >       $this->registry['auth']['logout'] = 'imp';
> >
> > which thus seems to make horde use imp as it's default auth module.
> > that's great as i now don't have to separately configure an auth
> > mechanism for addressbook (which is working great against our ldap server).
> >
> > the ftp module is still wanting another login/auth, though. all of our
> > users have a unified password via ldap. so i'd much rather have one auth
> > mechanism be passed along through all the horde modules.
> >
> > what is the advised means of accomplishing this (logging in to horde
> > allows access to all horde modules)?

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Robin P. Blanchard
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Georgia Center for Continuing Ed.
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