Re: [Exist-open] Changing authentication

[Mike E. <emi...@gm...>]

Thanks Adam

I'll go in the direction you showed me, and will try to gather
information on the IRC channel.

I'll first check the mailing list archives about the discussions you
already had.

News quite soon

Thanks

On 12/19/05, Adam Retter <ada...@de...> wrote:
> No one has started this yet, it has only briefly been talked about,
> although I dont see it as a big project.
>
> Most of the Developers hang out in #existdb on irc.freenode.net. It
> really is the place to ask development questions etc.
>
> Wolgang Meier is the lead on this project as you had probably gathered,
> he may be reached via. the IRC channel - he is the best bet for
> architeture questions or a view on the direction of eXist. But it is an
> open source project so if you can develop what we have discussed chances
> are it will be integrated into the main code tree.
>
> Wolfgang controls allocation of CVS access, if you are serious about
> developing this then im sure he would give you commit access...
>
> Thanks Adam.
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 15:13 +0100, Mike ERRECART wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > That was exactly what i was meaning : interface/implementation, i
> > wanted to know if some of you had already put hands on it.
> >
> > If eXist is my choice of XML DB, and i think it will be, i'll try to
> > code that. Someone else interested in that "redesign" ? I'll be glad
> > to talk to some interested people, people who know eXist better than i
> > do, to make the better design choices.
> >
> > ++
> >
> > On 12/16/05, Adam Retter <ada...@de...> wrote:
> > > There was talk of making SecurityManager into an interface and
> > > refactoring the current code into an implementation of that. This way
> > > people could add their own classes for authentication, there was some
> > > talk previously of doing this so that we could have LDAP authenticati=
on.
> > >
> > > What are your Java skills like?
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:14 +0100, Mike ERRECART wrote:
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > >
> > > > Still in the process of evaluating eXist, i have a question :
> > > >
> > > > Did some of you modified the eXist source code to change the way
> > > > users/roles are stored ?
> > > >
> > > > I mean, i'd like eXist to use some users/roles stored in a already =
in
> > > > production RDBMS, do i only have to rewrite the SecurityManager cla=
ss
> > > > ? or does it impact more code change ?
> > > >
> > > > Are there plans to "redesign" the code so that the class responsibl=
e
> > > > for the authentication is defines via a configuration file, allowin=
g
> > > > easy change of implementation ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your answers, and for the product
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > >
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