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List:       bricolage-general
Subject:    Re: Summer of Code 2006
From:       David Wheeler <david () kineticode ! com>
Date:       2006-04-24 20:50:38
Message-ID: F32CFB17-9841-4A90-9F53-8C465FACAB06 () kineticode ! com
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On Apr 24, 2006, at 13:32, Marshall Roch wrote:

> We use Pubcookie here (Carnegie Mellon), too.  mod_pubcookie  
> redirects the user to a login server, then redirects them back to  
> the app on success, appearing to the application much like Apache's  
> basic authentication (i.e. it sets REMOTE_USER).  A Pubcookie  
> module would just need to confirm that the username in REMOTE_USER  
> is authorized in the Bricolage database (probably similar to the  
> way LDAP auth works).

Great background, Marshall. Thanks. Maybe you'd mentor such a  
project, eh? :-) At least you could test it at CMU.

> The Bricolage side of things is probably not enough for a full SoC  
> project, but getting pubcookie installed can be fairly involved.   
> Writing a few pluggable auth modules (I'd also like to see PAM  
> support) would be cool, though.

Yeah, PAM, that's another one.

Best,

David
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