Re: [mantisbt-dev] CoSign authentication

[Victor B. <vb...@gm...>]

Hi Jennifer,

Thanks for offering to supply a patch for CoSign support.  That would
be great and the place to post that would be the bug tracker.

I would like that we can refactor the authentication code in a way
where we can allow support for such authentication systems like CoSign
to be implement as a plugin, in a way that is similar to the Wiki
integration plugins.

Following are the next steps:
1. Create a fully function CoSign patch.
2. Submit an issue in the bug tracker and attach the patch.
3. Refactor the code to be more like a plug-in rather than a patch
that involves modifying distribution code.

If you do step 1-3, then I see no reason why this doesn't go in as
soon as it is ready.  However, you may elect to do 1 and 2, and leave
3 for someone else to handle in the future.

Step 3 will require coordination with the development team to make
sure that the proposed authentication plug-in module makes sense and
would work for other authentication mechanism.

Some related issues in the bug tracker:
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=4235
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=7989
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=7791
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=4234
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=4010

On 9/10/07, Jennifer Mullen <jm...@ps...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been pretty absent from the Mantis project for a while due to
> work needs, so my apologies if something like this has been discussed
> and I've missed it.
>
> My institution uses Cosign (http://weblogin.org). I added support for
> this into the Mantis 1.0.x series on our installation and am planning
> to do so for 1.1 as well. Would this be something that you'd be
> interested in incorporating into Mantis? If so, I can add support for
> things that we don't use in our environment (anonymous access, for
> example), and provide a patch. It would likely be usable in any most
> HTTP authentication scenarios where authentication is handled on a
> remote web server.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>         -J.
>
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