On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:12 +0530, Mohammad Ehtesham wrote: > Hello, > > > > Can we have “External database authentication” or single sign-on > feature in dspace? > > > > For i.e.: > > > > If we are using some CMS or LMS like Joomla or Moodle and some easy > link is embedded and once the user clicks on the link the user’s login > authentication should pass on to the dspace also. > > > > In simple words: We are looking to make a secure link to dspace from > within our LMS, with the same sign-on.
Depending on how far you want to take things, one approach that might be worth investigating using Shibboleth, which will will allow ID management collaboration with other institutions. A quick search suggests that joomla, moodle and dspace are all "shibbolisable". http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ http://wiki.psigrid.gov.ph/index.php/Joomla_Content_Management_System_with_Shibboleth_Service_Provider http://docs.moodle.org/en/Shibboleth https://mams.melcoe.mq.edu.au/zope/mams/pubs/Installation/dspace14 Regards, Nik Lam -- Unix-like Systems Administrator ---------------------------------------------------------- Library IT Services Level 1, Fisher Library (Building F03) The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Phone: +61 2 9351 4304 Fax: +61 2 9351 7769 CRICOS Provider Number: 00026A ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
