> I am testing external authentication using the POP3Authenticator and > users can only log in if they have an account and home directory on the > server. Is this normal? It is not a big nuisance, because it has the > advantage of giving me more control on who can use Base, but it seemed a > bit odd.
This is a bit odd. If the authentication server (in this case, the POP server) says that the user/password is ok, BASE should automatically create a new account. If this doesn't work, please submit an error report on the BASE web site. Could it be that the POP server isn't responding to BASE? Because if it doesn't and if you have configured BASE to cache passwords, BASE will revert to using internal authentication. The different scenarios are documented at http://base.thep.lu.se/chrome/site/latest/html/developerdoc/plugin_developer/plugin_developer.other.html#plugin_developer.other.authentication If a user has a home directory or not shouldn't affect the possibility to login. If you find any problems which seems related to this please send another bug report. A final note. If you want the manual control, then I don't see the need for using external authentication. Or, you should use an external system that allows you to configure (in that system) who is allowed to use BASE or not. But that is beyond the scope of the POP3Authenticator, which should be considered as a proof-of-concept implementation. /Nicklas > > Thanks, Paulo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ The BASE general > discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: > send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
