Hi, We've implemented the Surrogate authentication in Fedora 2.2.4 and will be looking at it in Fedora 3.3 when we upgrade. Any guidance on how to achieve this would be a great help. We authenticate users against a Web Service that contacts our Catalogue which holds users and roles.
Thanks Glen Robson National Library of Wales On 2 Feb 2011, at 16:34, Chris Wilper wrote: > Very good question. I would also like to know whether anyone has been > successful in getting this to work. > > It doesn't look promising: Searching the list history, I see several > other (unanswered) questions about this, so clearly there's interest, > but I haven't been able to find evidence of anyone succeeding with > this. I know we also don't have any tests for this, which concerns > me. In addition, searching the code, I see a parameter called > "surrogate-role" which is not mentioned at all in the (minimal) > documentation about this. > > It seems that at a minimum, the documentation needs to be updated so > it doesn't leave people hanging on this, and we need to get an issue > in the tracker about the need for (a working, tested implementation > of) this feature. > > But before making drastic edits to the documentation on this, I'd also > like to know: > > Has anyone out there been successful in using this feature (and how)? > > Thanks, > Chris > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Martinez Garcia, Agustina > <a.martinez-gar...@ljmu.ac.uk> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like some support in the use of the surrogate functionality >> for authentication through Fedora. We have a web application that >> does a separate authentication to a MySQL database. The relational >> model for this authentication supports roles. Once the user is >> authenticated in the system I would like to use those credentials >> to access Fedora's rest APIs for management, like creating new >> objects and so on. I have been reading through the Fedora >> documentation about the surrogate features but I still don't see >> clearly how to use them since I am not familiar enough with these >> mechanisms. So any enlightening on this would be very appreciated. >> >> Is anyone using these features at the moment? >> >> Thanks in advance and best regards, >> Agustina >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! >> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better >> price-free! >> Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires >> February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Fedora-commons-users mailing list >> Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better > price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-users mailing list > Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
