[Zope-CMF] using zope authentication outside of Zope...

[larry_prikockis@natureserve.org]

Here's the situation- 

I'd like to use a php-based forum (w-agora) as part of a site that will be
otherwise built in Zope/CMF.
Is there a relatively simple way of getting at the __AC cookie zope is using
for authentication from this php application?  

Or am I going about things the wrong way?   I want to avoid having a user
already logged into the CMF portal be required to log in again to be
authenticated for the php-forum.  In other words, I'd like to just pass the
Zope/CMF credentials along to the other application.  So far, my fiddling
around with cookies hasn't been fruitful.

all clues greatly appreciated...  (as are warnings as to why, from a
security perspective, I don't want to be doing this... I have a bad feeling
that if I get it to work, it'll only be by opening up some colossal security
hole :-(


thanks-
Larry
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Larry J. Prikockis
Internet Systems Specialist, NatureServe
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Email:larry_prikockis@natureserve.org
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