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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: 849     Entry time: Wed Dec 15 15:42:13 2004     In reply to: 844     Reply to this: 850
Icon: Blink  Author: Steve Jones  Author Email: steve.jones@freescale.com 
Category: Comment  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.

Ah, you test me!  Perhaps I will attempt to dig into this but I may have to leave the
integration up to you, Stefan.  Seems that there would be two roads to go:
1> Move away from standalone and start to rely on Apache
2> Continue with the standalone theme and build in LDAP authentication (which could
also give you groups functions as well). 

I think I would opt for <2>
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