[development] authentication module without the @foo

[Moshe Weitzman]

see the solutions at end of http://drupal.org/node/29147

yet another alternative for you might be to use weserver_auth.module and 
use some apache mysql auth module thingie to query for authentication. 
that works best when the whole site is beind this mysql auth barrier.


Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently developed mysql_auth module [1]. Its rather silly/small, but still 
> usefull. It allows users to authenticate against any other database, not 
> nessecarily in drupal form, postgre works too, despite the name.  I am 
> testing now, but will release as soon as I have this last issue solved :)
> 
> Right. What I want, is to get the authentication to be performed for any user. 
> Not just user at foo, but if Joe is not fond local, then it should check for Joe 
> in the other table. Drupal has this hardcoded, so the authentication hooks 
> cannot do this. 
> 
> But I was wondering if there is another way to authenticate users? Some 
> user_load trick I am not aware of? Ot maybe a patch that I can +1 to remove 
> the hardcoded @ check?
> 
> Blèèèèèr
> 
> [1] http://help.sympal.nl/user/help#mysql_auth
> 
> PS: I know about the way to share user tables but that is
>  a) only usefull for tables in the form of drupal tables. (you cannot check 
> for MyStrangeAPPusers)
>  b) not perfect, because you need to share a /lot/ of tables, also ones like 
> the {sequences}. it has side effects
>  c) not very safe if you want to allow users from A to log in on B but those 
> from B not on A.