Eric,

I was wondering what is your SSO setup? do you use LDAP? Do you use
Cookies? I would like to hear more about it to see how general we can
make this initial support.

-Elias

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +1
> Release 3.0 :):)
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Dave Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Envoyé : mardi 29 août 2006 02:03
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: Roller and SSO via Acegi Security
> 
> +1 for getting this into 3.0
> 
> Elias sent me a patch containing the small amount of code necessary to 
> optionally add support for SSO via LDAP -- a much request feature. I think 
> it's safe to add this to the Roller 3.0 code base because
> 
> - It's optional and effects the new user creation process
> - It's a small change to UserFormEx and two new classes
> 
> There is a small change in UserFormEx that is only invoked if SSO is enabled. 
> If SSO is enabled and SSO data is present, then UserFormEx self-populates 
> based on that SSO data.
> 
> There are also two new classes that depend on Acegi.
> 
> 1. CustomUserRegistry
> - Extends Ageci JdbcDaoImpl and implements LdapAuthoritiesPopulator
> - Populates UserData object with data from LDAP
> 
> 2. RollerAuthoritiesPopulator
> 
> The only piece that's missing is docs. With this new code, what needs to 
> change in the existing LDAP FAQ?
> 
> - Dave
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/27/06, Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> +1 for anything that makes integrating with LDAP easier for companies.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On 8/27/06, Elias Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I'm revisiting the need for LDAP support in Roller and after some 
>>> investigation on Acegi Security it seems like I could work something 
>>> in Roller that would benefit not just IBM but other Roller 
>>> installations such as Yale and N.C. State. Dave pointed me to 
>>> RollerAndSSO [1] in the wiki and it seems like covers the most 
>>> common cases of authentication in Roller. I've started reading Acegi 
>>> Security documentation and was able to succesfully configure Roller 
>>> 3.0 against our Enterprise Directory, however, there are some 
>>> remaining issues that I want to share with you for suggestions on how I 
>>> should proceed.
>>>
>>> I've configured security.xml to use LDAPAuthProvider. This provider 
>>> fetches user information and authorities (roles) information. The 
>>> issue is that our roles "editor" and "admin" are not stored in our 
>>> secondary LDAP directory (for Groups only). The LDAPProvider does 
>>> (thankfully) split the provider functions of checking user 
>>> credentials and fetching role information. Therefore I can write my 
>>> own AuthoritiesPopulator that access the rest of the information 
>>> from the RollerDB. Now, writing the AuthoritiesPopulator is not 
>>> exactly trivial mostly because of simple design of the provider code 
>>> in Acegi Security. I would have to copy most of the code from the 
>>> DAO provider to make use of the same declarative features in the 
>>> security.xml file, but it's not a big deal.
>>>
>>> My suggestion then is for me to write some sort of 
>>> [Roller]CompositeProvider that allows basically a pick-your-own 
>>> combo of features for providing user information. Something like 
>>> pick either or both LDAP and DAO for either or both credentials and 
>>> roles. It would duplicate some code from two Acegi Security classes 
>>> because the code is not properly abstracted, but it will not require 
>>> changes to Acegi Security and it would always be an optional 
>>> provider for Roller installations, the default could be what we have in 
>>> security.xml today.
>>>
>>> Now, the bigger issue is the one mentioned in LDAP_SSP_FAQ [2]. In 
>>> our IBM internal environment, we have enabled registration, but we 
>>> don't store password information in Roller. In essence what I 
>>> suggested to Dave is to password-protect the registration page and 
>>> when loaded auto-populate the username, name and email address 
>>> fields (actually make them read-only) and let any authenticated user 
>>> register in Roller.
>>> However, there's a NullPointerException in
>>> RollerSession.getRollerSession() because there's an authenticated 
>>> user but there's no user in the RollerDB. I was hoping I can inject 
>>> some code there that would use the generic UserDetailsService in Acegi 
>>> Security to
>>>    (based on a configurable option) to either auto-insert a record 
>>> and tweak the registration update to deal with an existing user and 
>>> just update, or to populate the session with a transient user-object 
>>> that could be used in the registration page.
>>>
>>> I hope you can make sense of the long winded message and let me know 
>>> if I can proceed to add this code (together with whatever 
>>> tweaks/suggestions you may have) to the 3.0 branch.
>>>
>>> -Elias
>>>
>>> [1] http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RollerAndSSO
>>> [2] http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=LDAP_SSP_FAQ
>>>
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