Hi all, On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Thilina Buddhika <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Senaka Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Is this a developer question or s user question? >> >> >> From what I gathered, this is related to writing an authenticator. So, >> IMO, this is a developer question. >> > > From what I understand, the requirement to authenticate users to a > particular service in a specific manner and not to the mgt-console. This can > be done through an Axis2 handler. Carbon authenticators are more towards > providing custom ways of authenticating users to the management console. > > >> >> >>> I am wondering if we should have an OT KB on this. >> >> >> Thilina/Prabath, is it a common use-case for having to write an >> authenticator? If so, +1 for a KB for the benefit of the developers. >> > > +1 for a KB intended for developers. > > We have encountered a couple of cases, where users want to write custom > authenticators. But we need to refine the existing APIs to make it more > simpler. For example, after successfully authenticating we need to set > certain parameters to the Carbon Context. This is common to all the > authenticators and it should be a part of the API. But users have to > specifically do that with the current implementation. > This is about writing a handler for security phase to authenticate a user request to sqs service. So my requirement was to do the later part after successful authentication such as setting set of parameters as explained by Thilina. > > > Thanks, > Thilina > > >> Thanks, >> Senaka. >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Senaka Fernando <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Manjula, >>>> >>>> For the benefit of the others, please do update this thread with the >>>> summary of the offline discussion that we had on this. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Senaka. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Manjula Rathnayake >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I am completing the sqs based authentication handler, so once we have >>>>> identified that the user is authenticated, >>>>> what parameters should be set in carbon context to get the user name at >>>>> a later time? >>>>> >>>>> The idea is that, >>>>> 1. A user register with sqs service(user is given a secret id) >>>>> 2. When user consume the service, set of headers are provided with a >>>>> signature signed by the secret id. >>>>> 3. An authentication handler verify the signature. >>>>> 4. At the back-end, to connect to qpid, user name is needed. This is >>>>> taken from CarbonContext.getCurrentContext().getUsername(). >>>>> >>>>> So setting up the user name is required after successful >>>>> authentication. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Manjula Rathnayaka >>>>> Software Engineer >>>>> WSO2, Inc. >>>>> Mobile: <%2B94%2077%20743%201987>+94 77 743 1987 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Carbon-dev mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Senaka Fernando* >>>> Product Manager - WSO2 Governance Registry; >>>> Associate Technical Lead; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com* >>>> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://apache.org >>>> >>>> E-mail: senaka AT wso2.com >>>> **P: +1 408 754 7388; ext: 51736*; *M: +94 77 322 1818 >>>> Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/senakafernando >>>> >>>> *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Carbon-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>> Samisa... >>> >>> Samisa Abeysinghe >>> VP Engineering >>> WSO2 Inc. >>> http://wso2.com >>> http://wso2.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Senaka Fernando* >> Product Manager - WSO2 Governance Registry; >> Associate Technical Lead; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com* >> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://apache.org >> >> E-mail: senaka AT wso2.com >> **P: +1 408 754 7388; ext: 51736*; *M: +94 77 322 1818 >> Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/senakafernando >> >> *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware >> >> > > > -- > Thilina Buddhika > Senior Software Engineer > > WSO2 Inc. ; http://wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > > phone : +94 77 44 88 727 > blog : http://blog.thilinamb.com > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > Thank you. -- Manjula Rathnayaka Software Engineer WSO2, Inc. Mobile:+94 77 743 1987
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