On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami
<behzad.esl...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> We have dozen of applications, mostly written in PHP and Python.
> They're distributed on different servers, but i'm trying to integrate them
> somehow.
>
> Each application has its own users.
> Is there a way to store all username/passwords into a single datasource
> and give each user, her proper permissions?
>
> Since i'm just a php-programmer, i *thought* of a MySQL database to
> hold these data, and then use a SOAP-Server to handle the authentication
> across those applications.
>
> Once a user provides her username/password, a SOAP Request will be
> made to a PHP-Driven Authentication Server, which handles the job to
> check the permissions and user's identity.
>
> It sounds slow, isn't it? Is there a better solution?
> How do you make authentication across a network of applications?
>
>

OAuth comes to mind...


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