My current system does extend the directory system. Though managing that extension can be a headache. Right now we just use the built in basic username/password authentication. But I have found parts of the old code that did implement their own authentication solution. But that was likely used pre 2000 when the authentication system did not exist yet.
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Douglas Cryer via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Eric, > > In short you really do have to roll your own solution for this. That said I > would always advocate for extending the 4D Users and Groups security rather > than replacing it. I have seen both approaches over the years and IMHO there > are so many advantages to using the built in model that it seems crazy to > start from entirely from scratch. The effort to reproduce some built in > behaviours just is not worth it. > > What we do is have user and group entities held in data that we bind to the > 4D users and groups paradigm. This allows you to store additional properties > that can be useful in user and group management. It also allows for adding > in your own additional security steps such as TFA (I have used google > authenticator) but any model is possible because you have complete > programmatic control over the process. Enforcing password changing and > complexity also seem like relatively trivial steps to overlay on the existing > base. > > Regards, Dougie > ________________________________________________________ > > telekinetix Limited- J. Douglas Cryer > Phone : 01234 761759 Mobile : 07973 675 218 > 2nd Floor Broadway House, 4-6 The Broadway, Bedford MK40 2TE > Email : [email protected] Web : http://www.telekinetix.com > <http://www.telekinetix.com/> > ________________________________________________________ > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
