[webteam] [Fwd: Re: auth against jabber.org database]

[Zbyszek Żółkiewski]

Hi,

Peter - why not use just XMPP for authentication? (like OpenID) ? - It is
very simple, it is no matter where your account is registered,
authentication module just check if your JID and password are correct and
logging you on...just like that :)


On 11/30/07, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
>
> Some slow progress to report...
>
> 1. I created a postgres user on athena (the xmpp server machine) for
> this feature.
>
> 2. I set up permissions for this user in pg_hba.conf on athena.
>
> So this at least is a bit of forward movement.
>
> Next I will check into the information below...
>
> >     Hey guys, we figured out that we want to authenticate the new
> >     jabber.org <http://jabber.org>
> >     website against our existing database of IM users. The db is
> postgres on
> >     a different machine from the webserver. We want to make it read-only
> so
> >     that Drupal will check credentials against what we have in the IM
> user
> >     database (username and password). What is involved in writing a new
> auth
> >     module or hacking an existing module?
> >
> >
> > hook_auth is the function you'll need to
> > implement: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_auth/5
> >
> > There are a variety of external authentication modules you can use as a
> > template:
> > * http://drupal.org/project/cas
> > *  http://drupal.org/project/cosign
> > * http://drupal.org/project/facebook_auth
> > * http://drupal.org/project/netforum_authentication
> > <http://drupal.org/project/netforum_authentication>
>
>
>


-- 
pozdrawiam,
Zbyszek Żółkiewski
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