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People have plenty of usernames and passwords already, we +
People have plenty of usernames and passwords already, we don't want them to have yet another. We want people to be able to log in to OpenACS with the same password they use to log in to any other system.
Besides, administrators have better things to do than create @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ only one implementation of the authentication API, namly the one included in OpenACS Core.
Authentication Driver API: The service contract which authentication drivers implement.
Authentication:
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Account Management (NO PICTURE YET)
Batch Synchronization (NO PICTURE YET)
| Feature | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| New API | ||
| EXT-AUTH-01 | A | Extend Authentication/Acct Status API |
| EXT-AUTH-03 | A | Account Creation API |
| EXT-AUTH-05 | A | Password Management API |
| EXT-AUTH-30 | A | Authority Management API |
| Feature | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Login | ||
| EXT-AUTH-04 | A | Rewrite login, register, and admin pages to use APIs |
| EXT-AUTH-38 | A | ad_form complain feature |
| EXT-AUTH-19 | A | Rewrite password recovery to use API |
| EXT-AUTH-21 | A | Rewrite email verification with API |
| EXT-AUTH-28 | A | Username is email switch |
Users will log in using a username, a authority, and a +
Account Management (NO PICTURE YET)
Batch Synchronization (NO PICTURE YET)
| Feature | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| New API | ||
| EXT-AUTH-01 | A | Extend Authentication/Acct Status API |
| EXT-AUTH-03 | A | Account Creation API |
| EXT-AUTH-05 | A | Password Management API |
| EXT-AUTH-30 | A | Authority Management API |
| Feature | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Login | ||
| EXT-AUTH-04 | A | Rewrite login, register, and admin pages to use APIs |
| EXT-AUTH-38 | A | ad_form complain feature |
| EXT-AUTH-19 | A | Rewrite password recovery to use API |
| EXT-AUTH-21 | A | Rewrite email verification with API |
| EXT-AUTH-28 | A | Username is email switch |
Users will log in using a username, a 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 case the @@ -375,4 +375,4 @@ PAM specification
Draft Proposal by Andrew Grumet.
Yale CAS, a centrl authentication service a' la - Passport.
| Document Revision # | Action Taken, Notes | When? | By Whom? |
| 1 | Updated work-in-progress for consortium-sponsored ext-auth work at Collaboraid. | 20 Aug 2003 | Joel Aufrecht |