Sorry for coming late into this thread. I wrote a jCIFS/SMS Authentication Action for Cocoon and I successfully integrated it with the Portal Engine. If you are interested, I'm willing to donate it to the Cocoon Community.
Thanks, Eric -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Goers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Portal Questions At 9/6/2004 05:25 PM, you wrote: >Would there be a way of using the users Windows Active Directory >credentials to automatically log into the Cocoon Portal? It certainly is possible. Cocoon's authentication framework uses a pipeline to perform the authorization. I wrote an Authentication Generator to use with JAAS. I don't see why doing the same thing using Active Directory would be any different. You might want to search the mailing list archives as I seem to recall that topic from a while back. > > You would have to implement that using the specific search interfaces >of the > > systems and then keeping the index in say a Cocoon based store. Cocoon > > provides components that will help you with that - but the actual > > functionality would have to be implemented. > >This is shame. I understand that Universal search should be a given for >a serious portal product? I'm not sure what Universal search is. Cocoon supports Lucene. Is that the same thing? Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
