Hi David,

which SSO service dou you use internally? XWiki authenticators already
exist for CAS, Kerberos and NTLM, maybe you could draw inspiration from
them.

Guillaume

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM, David Delbecq <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I was hoping that somehow, when submitted via the form, password gets
> recorded until the end of the session. We can't afford, for the sake of
> user experience, to ask password every time user need to access a hidden
> system he is not even supposed to know is separate from the wiki. That's
> why we are writing some macro / components so that it's xwiki that access
> those system for him. This include various webservices, a documents storage
> and so on. We try to keep a single sign on policy. Of course, i don't want
> user password stored anywhere on disks, but keeping it in user session
> seems a good trade-of for me.
>
> I plan thus to create my onw xwikiauthservice that delegates to ldap
> service and store this in user session.
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>
> De: "Jerome Velociter" <[email protected]>
> À: "XWiki Developers" <[email protected]>
> Envoyé: Mardi 19 Juin 2012 11:53:42
> Objet: Re: [xwiki-devs] Access password of current user
>
> Hi,
>
> Fortunately, you can't. You can only access/verify a hashed version of
> the password.
>
> Note that asking for a password again is not necessarily a bad UX,
> especially if it is to allow access to a sensitive area/operation.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome.
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, David Delbecq <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > i am writing a component that need a password. Because this password
> will be the same for current user as the one he used to log-in, it would
> make for crappy interface ot ask it again to user. So i need to know how my
> component or a groovy script can access the username / password of current
> logged-in user.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > David Delbecq
> >
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