On Friday 11 March 2005 18:12, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:
> Over a year ago we have developed an MMBase security authentication
> implementation based on 'A-Select' (see www.a-select.org), initiated by the
> the Surf foundation (www.surf.nl) and the MMBase foundation, and together
> with the implementors or A-Select itself alfa & arris (www.alfa-ariss.com).
>
> Recently we have made several improvements on the code, to use it on a
> web-site for a customer (the province Limburg).
>
> I want to contribute the code as an application in the to-be-created 'third
> party' CVS module, and will be myself the maintainer.
>
>
> A-Select is only about user authentication. This part we made a year ago,
> only worked together with 'OwerAuthorization'. Recently I implemented a
> second option, which makes it possible to use this authorization in
> combination with the authorization mechanism of cloud context security.
> This creates a compile time dependency on the cloud-context security
> application.
>
> The original implementation also depended on the 'A-Select' agent. This is
> not needed any more, because A-Select itself is also a java web-app, it was
> easy enough to communicate directly to it, simply by reusing some of its
> own classes (so a compile time dependency on one of their jars was
> introduced).
>
> The recent changes on the security framework were mainly initiated by my
> work on this code. A-Select authentication is completely delegated to a
> dedicated program so you can never assume e.g. that name/password
> authentication is acceptable, so because of that the generatlizations were
> necessary, and are of course now utilized by this code. This is a bit buggy
> still, but it will be fixed.. At least it provides a test-case for this
> stuff.
>
>
> I attach the code. The build.xml still supposes to be in the 'applications'
> module, but that can be straightened out later, when it is clear how that
> should be done..
>
> It contains documentation, which is not entirely up-to-date but the
> configuration is documented in itself.
>
>
> START OF VOTING:   2005-03-11 18:30
> END OF CALL:       2005-03-16 18:30

+uno 

marcel maatkamp
 VPRO digitaal
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