[consulting] "Political" question about single login

[Cameron Eagans]

That sounds really useful! Why not release that as a contrib module?

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:

>  One of the easiest solutions I've used is a custom rolled SSO module.
>
> In short, each subsite has an SSO 'entry point' which has a URL something
> like:
>
> http://www.example.com/sso/3def4hhsgw3503==
>
> The second argument in the URL is the user's email address after being
> encrypted via 3DES then base64_encode()'ed for URL friendliness.  When that
> URL is accessed, the user email is decrypted and checked against existing
> accounts. If there is no matching account, the user details are fetched from
> the master site with the services module, the account is created on the
> subsite, and the user is logged in. If a matching account *is* found, then
> the user is logged in on the subsite with user_external_login().
>
> Brian Vuyk
> Web Design & Development
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> brian at brianvuyk.com | http://www.brianvuyk.com
>
> Audrius Naslenas wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Planing to build small network(5-10) of D6 sites, with different content
> and purpose, some on single code base, some on different. Even thinking to
> add 1 forum site based on phpbb/ipboard, but that is not priority.
>
> What is the best way to make single login solution with:
> 1. Single and preferably only one login/register place on "central" site of
> network
> 2. Different usernames (display names) and configurable user profile data
> on each site
>
> For now, I am not in a rush to sell soul to Facebook Connect, (well even
> this module does not have 100% needed features) what are the other viable
> choices?
> Some other LDAP based solution, not even Drupal itself? CAS? Single Sign On
> module? OpenID + supporting modules?
>
> It has to have some of the flexibility.
>
> Please, share your practical experience, as after the sites are online it
> will be much harder to migrate from one solution to other...
> Maybe you will convince me, that idea to have single login is bad itself,
> or will recomend to sell myself to Facebook/Google/etc for their already
> existing userbase...
>
> Thank you in advance for your thoughts.
>
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