[geeklog-devtalk] Re: ldap solution

[Tony Bibbs]

If I do this I would simply implement a factory pattern and then you 
could, in theory, add any auth method you want (e.g. /etc/passwd, ldap, 
imap, etc). All configurable from teh config.php.  Only thing that makes 
that a lot of work is handling account creation.

--Tony

 On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, steVe wrote:


> so spake geeklog-devel-request at lists.geeklog.net [2004.04.02 @ 12:03]:

> > Tony,

> > 

> > >Our auth system works the same way that Passport, Project Liberty, etc 

> > >does and the only way I could get this to work was to remove all the 

> > >functions in public_html/users.php (except for the profile function) and 

> > >put them in lib-acccount.php.  In this manner I now have access to teh 

> > >fucntions I need access to without compromising the way users.php 

> > >expects to work.

> > 

> > Any chance this could be turned into a generalized solution to allow all

> > sorts of "external" authentication schemes?

> > 

> > For example, here's someone looking for an LDAP solution:

> > <http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=8&showtopic=32761>

> > 

> > bye, Dirk

> 

> although completely possible to make an auth-ldap.class.php interface

> for ldapped networks, it would seem more useful for said networks to

> simply use apache's mod_ldap or similar. in other words, .htaccess 

> rather than db lookups and php interpreted code.  especially since most

> ldapped networks are rather large, it seems overkill to write php code

> to do what apache et al can do already.

> 

> just a thought.

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