[Zope-CMF] Integrating legacy applications in Zope

[Dieter Maurer]

srobroek at plexus.leidenuniv.nl wrote at 2003-11-27 12:31 +0100:
 > I'm having a problem with the development of a new CMF portal, concerning the
 > integration of legacy webapplications.
 > 
 > Normally one could use the password recovery options in zope/CMFCore to
 > single-signon users against such applications, but we are using authentication
 > against an LDAP server, which only contains encrypted passwords. Some of the
 > applications are closed-source (alas), so modifying them is no option.
 > 
 > My question is: is it possible to store the user's unencrypted password (which
 > is given during login) in a variable which exists as long as the user is logged
 > in, and which can be easily retrieved, to use it to authenticate such legacy
 > applications?

I would extend the UserFolder; more precisely, the associated "User"
class.

-- 
Dieter