Hi,

Am 09.11.2011 um 22:28 schrieb Justin Edelson:

> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Moving to dev@... (bcc only to users@)
>> 
>> Am 09.11.2011 um 18:24 schrieb Felix Meschberger:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In addition, I suspect that while the requirements of the DavEx
>>>> servlet with respect to Sling Authentication are not entirely unique
>>>> and that *if* there are changes required in Sling Authentication to
>>>> support the DavEx servlet will benefit other use cases.
>>> 
>>> Well, there is a unique "feature" which is called "missing-auth-mapping". I 
>>> am not entirely sure, that I want to add support for such functionality. 
>>> Because in essence, this would just replace one "anonymous" user with 
>>> another one (with maybe the added functionality of being able to disable 
>>> that user...).
>> 
>> On second thought ....
>> 
>> The location to implement this would probably be the 
>> JcrResourceResolverFactory implementing the getResourceResolver method. This 
>> could then do analogous to the missing-auth-mapping.
>> 
>> Still not sure, whether we would want to go there ...
> 
> I was thinking it belonged in SlingAuthenticator's
> getAnonymousResolver() method.
> 
> Could be something as simple as:
> if (request.getAttribute("anonymous.userid") {
>   ResourceResolver resolver =
> resourceResolverFactory.getResourceResolver(Collections.singletonMap(ResourceResolverFactory.USER_IMPERSONATION,
> request.getAttribute("anonymous.userid"));
> } else {
>   ResourceResolver resolver =
> resourceResolverFactory.getResourceResolver(null);
> }

The drawback of this solution would be to not be able to easily leverage JCR 2 
GuestCredentials.... Do we need that ?

Regards
Felix


> 
> Justin
> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> Felix

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