[imp] auth question

[Jan Schneider]

They actually are of course. Otherwise you'd have to authenticate every time 
you reload the browser or follow a link.
But that doesn't solve the problem that some horde apps have to authenticate in 
a special way to their backend.

Take a look at Erics response for some interesting solutions.

Jan.

Zitat von "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>:

> 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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> email: Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu
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