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Re: [mv] Authentication, userdb, Group Login
At 12:46 PM 11/10/1999 , you wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from "Ton Verhagen"
><ton@verhagen.net> ******
>
>Hello
>
>We are building an application that allows subscribers
>(companies) to access the pages only (no subscription = no
>access). This can be done easily with the userdb, however, there
>are some extra requirements which make it a bit more complicated.
>
>Here are the requirements/restrictions:
>Company1 -- has a subsription and is allowed to access the site.
>All employees (employee_1 ... employee_n) of this company need to
>be able to acces the site without having to login individually.
Sounds like you could model from the Unix permission
scheme. Users (employees) would be part of a group (the company).
>Managers (manager_1 ... manager_n) get extra priviliges (eg.
>update files or order products) when they login with a username
>and password.
Add a field in the userdb that contains a numeric privilige.
>Managers must be able to access the site from anywhere (eg. home,
>office, etc).
>
>All employees and managers accessing the site (catalog) must have
>his own session.
>
>Multiple companies can subscribe to the site of course.
>Note: Some companies have a fixed IP address but not all of them.
>
>At present we haven't been able to figure out how to address this
>problem. Has anyone worked on something similar or has anyone any
>idea how to implement this authentication scheme? Any pointers
>are welcome.
>
>Thanks a lot for your kind cooperation.
>
>Best regards
>
>Ton
>
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