[opencms-dev] LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM, and other folks ...

[Alexander Kandzior]

Guillaume,

we are currently working to make authentication for OpenCms more
pluggable for the next release. This will also allow to plug an LDAP
connector to OpenCms for the user management. The current CVS head
branch contains what we have done so far. 

The way to are thinking of sounds good, but opencms internally needs
quite some information about the user. E.g. it connects resource entries
in the VFS with the user id's to the user who created the resource. 

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com

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> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Apostoly Guillaume
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 7:19 PM
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: [opencms-dev] LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM, and other folks ...
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> Hi all,
>  
> I eard that people are currently working on LDAP support for 
> OpenCMS. I'm not sure how they plan to implement this but i 
> think this could be great to have a common way for different 
> type of authentication. My idea is to rely on OpenCMS for the 
> rights, and rely on the system authentication for getting the 
> user name.
> Ex: if you've got a configuration with apache/tomcat, apache 
> can do the authentication (based on mod_what_you_want, LDAP, 
> unix passwds, NTLM or so) and within the OpenCMS servlet, a 
> request.getRemoteUser gives access to the logged in user. Am 
> i right/wrong/nuts ? What do you think about this ?
>  
> Regards to all,
>  
> Guillaume.
>  
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