Guys? Anyone?
> Hi guys,
>
> I have to admit that i am fairly new to this topic, especially new to erlang.
> Currently i am trying to play around with the various authentication handlers
> - goal is to have a working "delegated authentication" on facebook, twitter
> and such.
>
> 1) as far as i understood the oAuth implementation of couchdb is just the
> opposite i need - you can use that to create tokens for couch-users, but not
> to accept twitter accessTokens/secrets and map that to a couch user
> 2) i found exactly what i need in datacouch - authentication against twitter
> with nodejs, and after that getting the plaintext password from a private
> couch and use it with _session-API to create a couch cookie.
>
> Now i am trying to avoid storing the plaintext passwords. I heard about to
> use proxy_authentification_handler, but it seems i am either too
> unexperiences or even too stupid to use it. I made the (as far as i
> understood) correct entries in couch_httpd_auth
>
> couch_httpd_auth auth_cache_size
> 50
> x
> authentication_db
> _users
> x
> authentication_redirect
> /_utils/session.html
> x
> require_valid_user
> false
> x
> secret
> xxxxxxxxxxxx
> x
> timeout
> 43200
> x
> x_auth_roles
> roles
> x
> x_auth_token
> token
> x
> x_auth_username
> uname
>
>
> and also in httpd
> httpd allow_jsonp
> true
> x
> authentication_handlers
> {couch_httpd_auth, proxy_authentification_handler},{couch_httpd_auth,
> cookie_authentication_handler}, {couch_httpd_auth,
> default_authentication_handler}
> x
> bind_address
> 127.0.0.1
> x
> default_handler
> {couch_httpd_db, handle_request}
> x
> port
> 5984
> x
> secure_rewrites
> false
> x
> vhost_global_handlers
> _utils, _uuids, _session, _oauth, _users
>
> When i now do a GET on
> http://localhost:5984/_utils/config.html?uname=user1&roles=user that seems to
> doesn't lead to anything...
>
> Anybody ever got that thing running? Am i missing something? Or is there any
> chance to implement a custom authentication handler without coding erlang?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help
> Michael
>
