dan sinclair wrote: > Andrew Williams wrote: >> dan sinclair wrote: >>> Andrew Williams wrote: >>>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>>>> >>>> This would be a feature I would like to add (as an option ;) ) >>>>> 5. forums of edevelop - how would we get xsm to handle that with >>>>> minimum pain >>>>> (don't say we need to write our own forum engine!) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> The easiest is to use any forum you want, theme it the same and then >>>> link it from the site menu (nav external links even higher on >>>> TODO). The >>>> thing with forums is that folk will likely want anon access, which is >>>> what I have not yet solved. If not then it is simply a case of >>>> defining >>>> a forum document definition. >>> >>> But doesn't this also imply that the forum will have a different set >>> of users as the main site? So anyone that creates an account to edit >>> the news page will need to create a second account to write in the >>> forums? >>> >>> dan >>> >> Unless we tie them all to the same authentication system, yes. Thus a >> quick but not optimal setup. >> > > Can XSM integrate with things like LDAP or other authentication > schemes? Or, would it be hard to add? Or, another way, what are the > available authentication mechanisms available in XSM as that would > need to be considered when looking for the forum and bug software. > > dan > > > LDAP is definaltely planned, as all the other rectang.com services use it - but there is no implementation for external authetication yet, sorry :(
Of course it may be possible to go the other way and write a small wrapper on a forum that looks in the user data area and compares hashes of passwords... ;) A ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
