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List:       squirrelmail-users
Subject:    Re: [SM-USERS] Squirrelmail Auth/Session system
From:       pdontthink () angrynerds ! com
Date:       2003-11-27 22:21:34
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> Thanx...
>
>>>I want to bypass Squirrelmail's login screen, and automate login based
>>>on an existing session which I have due to the fact that my site has
>>>it's own Auth. system...how would I do so without tampering too much
>>>with the fabric of the SquirrelMail's own authentication system?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>There's no real easy way to do this seamlessly.  I am guessing that your
>>other system has a session-based login system, whereas SM's is currently
>>cookie-based (this will change in the future).  You'd basically have to
>>write some custom code that spits out a SquirrelMail cookie when the user
>>clicks to see their email.  You might want to review the code in
>>src/redirect.php to see how SM does it.  After you mimick that, you can
>>link directly to webmail.php.
>>
> However, on attempt to work within SM's cookie creation and generation
> on the src/redirect.php page...the session which contains the original
> login information is killed...any reason y?

Probably a clash in session name.  Conf.pl, menu #4, selection #15 (or
$session_name in config/config.php).  If that is still troublesome, fish
around in functions/global.php and try to see where you lose everything.

 - paul


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