Hi Geert,
I think I understand what you mean, but for me it looks like you have
two unique ids for the same item. Am I right when I would say that you
use the numerical id to decouple rife from different authentication
mechs like smartcard or biometric data by using a numerical userId ? And
that you do this because not every authentication mech is based on
username/password ?
Ciao
Matthias
Geert Bevin schrieb:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> the userId uniquely identifies a user for the authentication framework
> in RIFE. This is what will be used by the authentication managers to
> create an authentication session ID and be able to tie that back to
> the same user.
>
> The username and password are used for authorization. They're both
> needed in the RoleUsersManager to ensure that a user is valid and
> known. This authorization layer is entirely pluggable and in the case
> of the RoleUsersManager it is based on username, password and allowed
> roles.
>
> The long userId is what ties the authorization layer to the
> authentication layer.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Geert
>
> On 21 May 2008, at 11:47, Matthias Barmeier wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a bit confused about some methods in the RoleUsersManager
>> interface. I have implemented a new CredentialManager that implements
>> the CredentialsManager and the RoleUsersManager interfaces.
>>
>> This works perfect for my database application. I now tried to
>> implement
>> a really simple role based authorization layer for another project and
>> noticed that some methods in RoleUsersManager deals with long typed
>> userId and others needs a String typed user name.
>>
>> Shouldn't the user name be "unique enough"? Are there rife magic to
>> avoid the long typed userId because I retrieve userdata from a legacy
>> system that has no numerical id.
>>
>> Ciao
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>
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>
> >
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