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List:       jetspeed-user
Subject:    Re: authentication
From:       Jason van Zyl <jvanzyl () apache ! org>
Date:       2001-07-31 2:48:04
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On 7/30/01 10:20 PM, "Frans" <fth4mura@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi..
> 
> I find there is a JNDI setting in the conf (properties file).
> 
> Is it the LDAP implementation of Jetspeed?? or Turbine?

If there was one, it would be in Turbine but there isn't. There
are a few people who say they are working on it but nothing
has surfaced yet.
 
> :)
> 
> Frans
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sumit Ranjan" <s_sumit@rti.daimlerchrysler.com>
> To: <jetspeed-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: authentication
> 
> 
>> thanx raphael for your reply...
>> but could u please elaborate....i mean...in my case we have an LDAP server
>> for authenticating my intranet users....and my jetspeed users'
>> details(uid-pwd) are stored in the database....how do we enable these two
> to
>> talk ?
>> 
>> u had mentioned something about"password keyring" in thePSML...this sounds
>> like an exciting idea....can u please elaborate more on this ?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> sumit
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Raphaël Luta" <raphael.luta@networks.groupvu.com>
>> To: <jetspeed-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 6:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: authentication
>> 
>> 
>>> Sumit Ranjan wrote:
>>> 
>>>> jetspeed requires a user to authenticate himself.
>>>> if i put some of my intranet applications as jetspeed portlets...then
>> they
>>>> again require authentication....
>>>> can anyone please tell me how to do away with this double effort...i
>> mean
>>>> one authentication for both jetspeed and the associated portlets'
>>>> applications...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is near impossible in complicated environments, especially if you
>> don't
>>> have already a single authentication system in place.
>>> The current proposed methodology is to store in the user object (or the
>> PSML
>>> parameters as you prefer) a "password keyring".
>>> Whenever a user will first include a portlet in the portal page, it'll
>> have to
>>> authenticate against his legacy application, but these authentication
>> tokens
>>> will be saved by the portlet in PSML or User data and retrieved when
>> needed.
>>> This is not as good as a complete user database integration, but it
> works
>> and
>>> is manageable.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Raphael Luta - raphael.luta@networks.groupvu.com
>>> Vivendi Universal Networks - Paris
>>> 
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