On 1/20/08, party-fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Folks!
>
> Is ist a good idea to implement http authentification against a linux
> account and how can i do it with TurboGears?

Depends on what you mean by "good idea". At the very least you'll need
to use https and carefully consider the security implications.

> If you ask me i would prefer the more common way, with user accounts stored
> in the database of the TurboGear Web App. But the requirement of a project,
> i am working, is to make authentification against linux accounts. so this
> seems to be tricky, isn't it?


This certainly can be done, please see
http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/IdentityManagement#authenticating-against-an-external-password-source


> I hope somebody is into such things and can give me more info about http
> authentification.

What you'll need to do is tweak the identity framework of tg there are
tips on how to do this on the above link.

HTH,
Daniel

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