Basically, I'm new to cakePHP/MVC but not PHP itself. I'm thinking about moving an application I wrote some time ago over to cakePHP, but haven't been able to figure out quite the best way to do the following:
The application currently authenticates off the university's ID service (via an apache module) which handles the authentication, and sets the username in the $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] variable. What I'd like to do ideally, would be to have cakePHP Auth handle the specific permissions within the application - whether a user has permissions for x, y and z - via a database, but have the identity check done externally. Therefore I don't really need a login page or password (since the id has been checked and assured), I just need cake's auth to take the REMOTE_USER variable, check that user exists in this application, and then handle its permissions as appropriate. Can anyone point me in the right direction of being able to solve this? Thanks, J Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
