Re: [Server-devel] extension of Moodle authentication mechanism

2013-10-28 Thread Miguel González
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I heard that someone at activitycentral was extending, augmenting the authentication used by Moodle, so that other web based services can climb on. It's called xs-autherserve and is a component in DXS initiative. If

Re: [Server-devel] extension of Moodle authentication mechanism

2013-10-28 Thread George Hunt
Thank you. I'll spend some time studying it and try to write up some documentation, and use cases. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Miguel González migonzal...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.comwrote: I heard that someone at

Re: [Server-devel] extension of Moodle authentication mechanism

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
For full disclosure. This feature has been sitting on the side lines because of its kludginess. So, keep you hopes low :( On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:28 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. I'll spend some time studying it and try to write up some documentation, and use

Re: [Server-devel] extension of Moodle authentication mechanism

2013-10-28 Thread Miguel González
In fact, the only feature so far is mimic authentication mechanism used by Moodle. I documented [1] how Moodle's/XO autologin works and implemented it using Flask, the Python web micro framework. Next step will be to turn xs-authserver into an authorization server maybe using OAuth. This would

[Server-devel] extension of Moodle authentication mechanism

2013-10-27 Thread George Hunt
I heard that someone at activitycentral was extending, augmenting the authentication used by Moodle, so that other web based services can climb on. Can someone point me to the code? ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org