I'm not on site today so I can't confirm what we did, but we auth against
ldap and I didn't seem to think there was a problem with
validateUser(user, pwd). The pwd is the one the user entered and the
password you must present to LDAP, right?
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Berry
To: 'Turbine'
Sent: 09/06/2000 11:39 AM
Subject: Moving user validation into User interface from UserFactory class
I'm in the process of trying to adapt Turbine to use LDAP rather than
SQL to
store
user information. As part of this process, I need to use LDAP
authentication to
confirm username and password; this process involves presenting the
password
to the
LDAP server, rather than retrieving the password and comparing it on the
client side.
Unfortunately, the current user authentication scheme puts the
validateUser(user, pwd) method in UserFactory, and builds in the
assumption
that the password is retrieved and
compared. If this were replaced with a User.validate() method taking no
arguments,
derived, specialized user classes could handle their own validation in
any
desired way
without requiring changes to the Turbine base code. This would seem to
be a
better
compartmentalization of design.
Any comments? If this makes sense, is anyone with more experience than
I
interested
in taking it on, or should I give it a shot myself? (I have essentially
zero open-
source dev experience, so I'm a bit wary about trying to do this.)
--
Craig Berry - (310) 570-4140
Senior Software Engineer
GlueCode
1452 Second St
Santa Monica CA 90401
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