[Solar-talk] Auth and Role "multi" adapters

[Paul M Jones]

On Jun 12, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Clay Loveless wrote:

> I'm assuming you're referring to the ability to authenticate  
> against multiple sources, ala LiveUser?

Yes, exactly.


> Here's a use case that could concievably happen at my current gig:
>
> 1. Employees in an LDAP server
> 2. Users in MySQL db
>
> Community tools (wiki, forum, etc) auth against both so that  
> employees don't have to create separate "community" accounts, and  
> general users don't clutter up company LDAP server.

This is a fair case.  The new changes to how adapters are configured  
are giving me a couple of headaches, esp. when it comes to how some  
authentication systems process logins.  There's also the question of  
deconflicting user handles between multiple sources, and discovering  
which source the user authenticated against after-the-fact.

For now, in SVN, I've put the "multi" adapters into the "hold/"  
directory, pending a rewrite so they work properly regardless of  
authentication source (ditto for the Role multi-adapter).



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