Hello. I'm the developer of Lyceum, a blogging services system based on WordPress. I'm looking into what the state-of-the-art is for common user login/namespace/database solutions. My dream is to come up with a sustainable solution for sharing a user database between Lyceum, Drupal, and MediaWiki. What are folks using these days? LDAP? XMLRPC? Hacky custom backend scripts? Any info on this topic would be very appreciated. Thanks, John ---- aim/yim/msn/jabber.org: johnjosephbachir 713.494.2704 irc://irc.freenode.net/lyceum http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/
There are lots of authentication solutions around. Check SXIP and OpenID. They both have Drupal modules. (Boris? Are you lurking out there?) On 5/29/06, John Joseph Bachir <jjb@ibiblio.org> wrote:
Hello. I'm the developer of Lyceum, a blogging services system based on WordPress. I'm looking into what the state-of-the-art is for common user login/namespace/database solutions.
My dream is to come up with a sustainable solution for sharing a user database between Lyceum, Drupal, and MediaWiki. What are folks using these days? LDAP? XMLRPC? Hacky custom backend scripts?
Any info on this topic would be very appreciated.
On 29-May-06, at 10:32 AM, Khalid B wrote:
There are lots of authentication solutions around.
Check SXIP and OpenID. They both have Drupal modules.
(Boris? Are you lurking out there?)
Yep -- if you want this to scale infinitely, then run a central identity server (or use one of the systems you named as the master -- there is a SXIP homesite module for Drupal, for instance) and then implement the membersite protocol for any system you want to share login information. There aren't a lot of standalone identity servers yet, but most of them will run LDAP on the backend.
On 5/29/06, John Joseph Bachir <jjb@ibiblio.org> wrote:
Hello. I'm the developer of Lyceum, a blogging services system based on WordPress. I'm looking into what the state-of-the-art is for common user login/namespace/database solutions.
My dream is to come up with a sustainable solution for sharing a user database between Lyceum, Drupal, and MediaWiki. What are folks using these days? LDAP? XMLRPC? Hacky custom backend scripts?
Any info on this topic would be very appreciated.
Khalid B wrote:
There are lots of authentication solutions around.
Check SXIP and OpenID. They both have Drupal modules.
(Boris? Are you lurking out there?)
And we do have an XMLRPC-based authentication scheme, and I do believe there is an LDAP module as well. There is a lot of interest in single-signon and other shared authentication schemes for Drupal. I believe Bèr Kessels also wrote a module which allow Drupal to simply use another database/table for authentication, as well.
Op maandag 29 mei 2006 18:43, schreef John Joseph Bachir:
My dream is to come up with a sustainable solution for sharing a user database between Lyceum, Drupal, and MediaWiki. What are folks using these days? LDAP? XMLRPC? Hacky custom backend scripts?
I would advice you to go for some form of a pluggable or modular authentication system. This would not store all the details, but would at least allow people to develop additional authentication "components". What Drupal has, is a hook (PHP function), that gets called when people try to authenticate (not all details are worked out as good, but its concept is great). In the mean time you might want to look at some of Drupals authentication modules: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/74 If you are intersted in Drupal authentication, you might find some info here: http://drupal.org/node/32178 On a more personal note (because I'm the developer :) ) you might want to look at http://drupal.org/node/50946 SQL authentication: A Drupal module that allows you to authenticate against any SQL table with user information. Bèr
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Bèr Kessels wrote:
What Drupal has, is a hook (PHP function), that gets called when people try to authenticate (not all details are worked out as good, but its concept is great).
In the mean time you might want to look at some of Drupals authentication modules: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/74
If you are intersted in Drupal authentication, you might find some info here: http://drupal.org/node/32178
On a more personal note (because I'm the developer :) ) you might want to look at http://drupal.org/node/50946 SQL authentication: A Drupal module that allows you to authenticate against any SQL table with user information.
Very helpful, thank you B?r and everyone else who responded. John ---- aim/yim/msn/jabber.org: johnjosephbachir 713.494.2704 irc://irc.freenode.net/lyceum http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/
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