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Re: [mv] Authentication, userdb, Group Login
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Ton Verhagen wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Dan Busarow wrote:
> >You could write your own auth module for Apache. See
> Apache::AuthDBI
> >as a starting point for an auth module that uses DBI::DBD to
> talk to
> >a database.
[...]
> Thanks for your help so far!
>
> Would it also be a viable and safe solution to use Java?
> I mean, when the company does a login they'll get a kind of
> checksum. This checksum should be stored on the company's system
> (preferably done by Java script). When an employee accesses the
> catalog they load a page whith some Java that reads the checksum
> and modifies the selected URL in the page (adds the checksum
> somewhere in the URL --- eg. one-click search). If the checksum
> is okay (company has a current login) they get access, otherwise
> they have to login (company login).
Might work, you'd need to setup a website local to the company
to retrieve the token though. Java won't, using the standard
security model, access data from a site other than the one a
script is sitting on.
Dan
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