Which user mgmt prod/technique for sharing user info with other apps?
I'm looking for some advice please. My (yet another cms) Zope application needs to work transparently with a user management platform based on php and maybe even perl - the overall application lets customers do lots of stuff like: manage account, manage e-mail adds, domains, services, sites (cms). User information, including what level of access (role) they have per-site, is stored in a postgresql db. I think we're using Apache to set unique session ids which are stuffed into cookies/urls. Using this sessin id, my zope app needs to recognise the user without re-prompting for credentials, and know her roles. Also, any links back to the other parts of the system need to preserve the session info, but that's OT I guess. Which of the user management products fits the bill best? Or what should I read to be able to make a more educated decision? Thanks, Felix.
Felix Ulrich-Oltean wrote:
Which of the user management products fits the bill best? Or what should I read to be able to make a more educated decision?
You can probably script this with SimpleUserFolder. I'd be happy to help you with any problems you hit. cheers, Chris
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:27:13PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
Which of the user management products fits the bill best? Or what should I read to be able to make a more educated decision?
You can probably script this with SimpleUserFolder.
I'd be happy to help you with any problems you hit.
Thanks for the kind offer of help :) I've downloaded SUF, had a look around and it seems, well, nice and simple, but I still have one issue: I need to bypass Zope's (HTTP Basic) authentication - the users will already have been authenticated by a separate part of our website, and a cookie will have been set. So I'm armed with this cookie, and the corresponding information in the db - i.e. the user and his roles. Is this a job for Extensible User Folder, or can I still do it with SUF (how)? Thanks Felix.
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