[Zope-CMF] Auto Login

Jens Vagelpohl jens@zope.com
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:17:59 -0500


there is a LDAPUserFolder but that still leaves the "single sign-on" 
issue. using a common authentication source only gives you central 
storage of authentication information, but that has nothing to do with 
"someone who is logged into site A is automatically logged into B".

jens


On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 15:41 US/Eastern, Troy Farrell wrote:

> I would look at exUserFolder.  You'll probably have to write your own 
> single-sign-in type service, but it can be done.
>
> The (initial) problem is this:  Unless the two sites are in the same 
> domain and you use domain-wide cookies for both CMF's, the internal 
> user's browser won't send the authentication cookie to the external 
> CMF instance.  Does that make sense?  I need sleep :)
>
> You might also look at an LDAP based solution (is there an 
> LDAPUserFolder?)
>
> Troy
>
> Mike Doanh Tran wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I have two websites running on seperate machines on the same domain.  
>> One is
>> use for internal, the other is use to  for external customers.  The 
>> internal
>> has  CMF 1.2 and the other Zope 2.5.0 with basic authentication.
>> Is it posible to automate the internal users so that they don't have 
>> to login
>> to the external website once they are login to the internal CMF site?
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>> MT
>
>
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