[Repoze-dev] tg.repoze.who

[percious]

awesome.  thanks again.

On May 2, 9:15 am, Chris McDonough <chr... at plope.com> wrote:
> percious wrote:
> > Hey guys.
>
> > Nice work on repoze.who.  I am using it in my production tg2 server.
>
> Thank you, and great.
>
> > Our customer has a need to hook authentication into LDAP.  The idea is
> > that LDAP would athenticate the user, and the LDAP username would then
> > be used to perform a lookup on the TG database to get the user
> > information for the TG session.
>
> > Is this something that repoze.who can do?
>
> Sure.  You'd implement an "IAuthenticator" plugin ala
> <http://www.plope.com/static/misc/sphinxtest/intro.html#writing-an-aut...>
> that checked against LDAP.  Then you'd write an "IMetadataProvider" plugin that
> put user info into the identity:
> <http://www.plope.com/static/misc/sphinxtest/intro.html#writing-a-meta...>.
>   You'd then configure the who middleware with these plugins.
>
> - C
>
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