In article <20000316132824.01964@connect.com.au>, Evan Gibson <egibson@connect.com.au> wrote:
One thing I should point out firstly is that the LoginManager inside the PTK isn't finished yet and the developers don't suggest actually using it just yet.
Most of the unfinshed pieces have to do with giving users propertysheets. That makes it not quite useful for PTK yet. I'd say for non-PTK use it's in pretty good shape. Would I recommend using it currently? Well, for a production sight, I think maybe it's a bit too new. It could stand more testing and security review. But, if you're developing a site that you don't need to go live tomorrow, I say sure, go for it. It's quite useable for non-PTK applications.
While I said it looks great (and it does) and it accepts the admin password it does _not_ yet have the api in place to let you authenticate from SQL.
Sure it does! Got a SQL-based GUF? You should be able to take your GUF userExists/userRoles/userAuthenticate/etc methods and plop them unchanged into a LoginManager Generic User Source (GUS), and have it Just Work. You're probably thinking of the comment that it's not ready to do SQL-based PTKs. This is because the propertysheet support that PTK needs isn't there for SQL. But, that's a feature that no other SQL-based userfolder has anyway -- it's a new thing, and at the moment only PTK needs it.