[turba] ldap user auth

[Edwin Culp]

This is a complex issue and one that I haven't seen a solution that I
can live with.  
<possible brain fart>
In an ideal world, I would like to login to horde once and have it send my
login information to the other horde modules if they are configured for 
horde authentication.  If they aren't configured for horde you would log 
in to each individually.  I would want to have multiple database options
such as ldap, mysql, pgsql and unix password.

This is making me wonder, why we couldn't mix and match?  Use the horde 
login information taken from ldap to login to an imap/pop3/ftp server that 
is authenticating from the unix password file?  (This being a configuration
option, of course.)  I'm sure I'm missing something.
</possible brain fart>

ed

Quoting Julian Jares <julian@jares.com.ar>:

| Quoting Terry Davis <tdavis@birddog.com>:
| 
| > [...] 
| > Yes.  If I can at least get that information in a variable somehow
| > (securely), then it _should_ be easy to implement that into the
| > /turba/config/sources.php file.  This I will have to learn a bit of php
| for
| > but that is not a big deal.   Chuck hinted that this might be a bad idea. 
| I
| > am guessing there might be security concerns if we start throwing the
| auth
| > information around.  
| 
| I think Chuck is not worried about security (in this matter), but for 
| the "integrity" of the framework. You can actually use turba without imp
| right 
| now, but if you add that modification, you will be imp dependant for turba.
| 
| Maybe the right way to go is to add functions (or function hooks) for 
| authentication (and user information) in horde, but I just don't know if
| that's 
| too much work.
| I do agree private addressbooks are a must have.
| 
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| Julian
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