[opencms-dev] User Authentication

[Thomas Maerz]

Hello,

> I was wondering what I have to do that a User can login and the comes
> back to the pages he was at but sees extra links in the menu.
> I created a folder which is only visible to a certain Group. I don't
> want to log into the main administartion area but just log-in a user 
> which can than see that folder.

,----[ opencms.properties ]
| # Select authentication mode:
| # true = HTTP basic authentication
| # false = form based authentication
| # Give the URI in the system where the auth.form resides.
| ##########################################################
| auth.basic=false
| auth.form_uri=/your/folder/to/login/authenticate.html
`----

For the processing Java-Class see com.opencms.workplace.CmsLoginNew.
But use Web-Users for personalization, because the cannot login to
OpenCMS; the only see the according content.

> My second question is: If a user is logged-in is OpenCMS using the J2EE
> webapp specification? I want to integrate mvnForum (www.mvnforum.com) 
> which is a really cool openSource servlet based forum software. This
> forum is able to perform authentication using the J2EE based
> authentication.

I don't know.

Best Regards,
Thomas März