Re: [Catalyst] authentication plugin advice

[Jonathan Rockway]

=pod




    my $user = $c->request->user;
    if(!$user){
      # something bad happened with Pubcookie
      $c->detach('/error/not_logged_in');
    }
    $c->stash->{user} = $user;
    # etc.

I use pubcookie for authentication, which is similar. In catalyst, I have an C<auto> function in my Root controller that basically just does: I checked the manpage, and it says $c->request->user is deprecated and that $c->user should be used instead. There's no mention of $c->user existing elsewhere in the docs, though, so I'm not sure about that. I will test and get back to you (well, the list anyway). Again, as with perl, There's More Than One Way To Do It, so YMMV. I like Catalyst because I can do my own thing (as evidenced by my blog software, L<http://www.jrock.us/trac/blog_software>; there are slides there that talk about my PGP-based auth model, and my non-database database :)

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

Len Jaffe wrote:

So I have a semi goofy authentication plugin that I
have to spin soon, and I thought I'd just ask here for
any advice on how to go about it, and to entertain you
all.

I have siteminder hooked into apache via a module, so
any request to my server is authenticated by
siteminder before the request can be processed.  Once
authnicated to sitemeinder, the request is allowed to
hit my cat app, and I get some http headers, one of
which tells me the users ID.

So I need to craft auth plugins to use the ID as
username, not bother with passwords, and look up the
user record from my DBIC user table.

Authz will use the DBIC modules and not need
customization, but I need advice as to which modules I

I read the authn/authz docs, but I'm still a little
fuzzy on the details.

Do I need to write a store::backend?
a login method?
other stuff?

Thanks.
Len.



Leonard A. Jaffe     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leonard Jaffe Computer Systems Consulting Ltd.
Columbus, OH, USA 614-404-4214 F: 530-380-7423

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