Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/ext-auth-requirements.adp =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/ext-auth-requirements.adp,v diff -u -r1.6.2.4 -r1.6.2.5 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/ext-auth-requirements.adp 26 Aug 2020 07:46:25 -0000 1.6.2.4 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/ext-auth-requirements.adp 5 Jan 2021 17:33:39 -0000 1.6.2.5 @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ EXT-AUTH-28AUsername is email switch -

Users will log in using a username, a authority, and a password. +

Users will log in using a username, an authority, and a password. The authority is the source for user/password verification. OpenACS can be an authority itself.

Each user in OpenACS will belong to exactly one authority, which can either be the "local" OpenACS users table, in which @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@

Each authority is defined like this:

If a user doesn't have an account, the site-wide configuration can allow the user to register for one, as defined in the configuration discussed above. This section is about normal -account registration through a authority driver.

The account creation service contract implementation will need +account registration through an authority driver.

The account creation service contract implementation will need to tell us which information to ask the user for:

The fields to choose from are these: