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icon5.gif   external authentication possible?, posted by Steve Allen on Mon Dec 6 02:34:32 2004 
    icon2.gif   Re: external authentication possible?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Dec 6 21:22:20 2004 
       icon2.gif   Re: external authentication possible?, posted by Steve Jones on Mon Dec 6 22:48:19 2004 
          icon7.gif   Re: external authentication possible?, posted by Steve Allen on Tue Dec 7 01:18:14 2004 
          icon2.gif   Re: external authentication possible?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sun Dec 12 12:49:06 2004 
             icon12.gif   Re: external authentication possible?, posted by Steve Jones on Wed Dec 15 15:42:13 2004 
                icon2.gif   Re: external authentication possible?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Dec 15 18:19:31 2004 
                   icon2.gif   Re: external authentication possible?, posted by Steve Jones on Thu Dec 16 05:23:54 2004 
Message ID: 844     Entry time: Sun Dec 12 12:49:06 2004     In reply to: 833     Reply to this: 849
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Info  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.5.5-2 
Subject: Re: external authentication possible? 
> The only common denominator that could possibly cover all contingencies would
> be LDAP authentication.  One way of doing this in a more-or-less universal
> fashion is to offload the auth task from eLog itself and place the burden on
> Apache.  This means figuring out how to get Apache to pass auth info to eLog
> when eLog operates behind Apache.  In the end, anything that can use LDAP as an
> authentication mechanism (like AD) can host eLog - as long as eLog can glom off
> of Apache's ability to do the actual authenticating.  

That sounds to me like a great idea. If anybody gets this working, people would be
grateful if this could be submitted to the "Contributions" section of this forum.
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