Oh, of course! What was I thinking. Tomcat does the validation itself! So I can certainly use mySQL for authentication. As for the fine grained Slide stuff, has anyone written a store for this like the one Martin suggests?
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 15:30, Martin Holz wrote: > Hello, > > xiaohu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a way to set up Slide to use authentication from a database, > > like mySQL, rather than the slide.data config file? I would like to > > include Slide as part of a single sign-on system, but right now that's > > rather clunky using the slide.data config file. > > > Slide does not do any authentication at all. That's left to the application. > If you are using the webdav servlet and tomcat, you can use whatever Tomcat > realm is available. So you can use mySQL for authentication. > > However for fine grained autorisation Slide must know the user names and > the groups, to which a user belongs (but not the password). You could > write a store, which maps your mySQL table to slide nodes under > /users. It's not that hard, but I don't know, if somebody already > did this. > > Martin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
