David Ross wrote:Hmmm.... I wonder if this approach could lead to a "change-site" drop-down in the admin? (which I think Farcry kinda needs, however keeping the user authenticated is the problem)
Are people genuinely in need of some kind of FarCry super-admin? We run many servers with many FarCry instances per server, in production and development, and never really find the need for such a thing.
What features are you missing?
I think you're on the right track. Typo3 does this already, and I think FarCry could probably do it without too many changes to the core. We would just have to consider the user repository and the rights that went along with it (So we could incorporarate Single-Sign-on). Hmm... Maybe it will be more difficult to modify than I thought. =\
FarCry deliberately uses a separate application space and content repository for each instance. If you want a single UserDirectory for all FarCry apps on a server, just set up that UserDirectory for each app -- it's really that easy. I use the same credentials for every app on our server. You will need to map the usergroup to a policy in each app -- but we do that as part of the set up.
If anyone thinks this is do-able give me some ideas and maybe I'll take a hack at it. I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of the app.cfm keeping a list of all the sites. Then when the user logs in, the system will cross-reference each FarCry system with the user's rights and determine whether or not to include the site in the drop-down.
We typically see this as an Administrator thing. We never have clients who require a drop down to enter multiple instances of the admin. If they have multiple sites we'll typically house these on different domains in any event.
Am very interested to here folks requirements on this issue,
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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