Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Adapting authentication to my needs

[Joseph Engo]

>Hi! I want to know if phpgroupware uses some kind of standar function to
>check if a user is authenticated.
>The problem is I have a working intranet system writen mostly in perl (not
>by me) wich authentication is integrated with Windoor
>Networking/E-Mail/Proxy/etc. and I want to add to this system the excelent
>phpgroupware framework to use some of the applications...
>What I have to do is get a cookie from the user, check in a mysql database
>for the unique id in the cookie and if is present, check for some data
>stored in the DB (like username, etc)... If the user is logged in, I let
>it cotinue with phpgroupware, if not, I redirect him to the standar perl
>login of the intranet system I'm working in...
>
>Well, I hope somebody can give me some help with this, at least telling me
>where can I read about the authentication in phpgroupware....

This idea is a little more complex them standard auth.  Becuase, you are dealing
with a seperate cookie.  Heres some ideas on how to do it.  Its not the greatest
idea, but the changes could be brought into cvs. (On some parts)

You will need to change all references to $sessionid to the name of your cookie 
and
re-write class.sessions.inc.php.  You may need to create a new
class.auth_custom.inc.php file.  Not sure how you want to handle logins.

Either way, it would be a great idea to be able to change the name of the 
$sessionid
in the code.  This way, you _could_ have multiable sessions running on seperate
machines and do many more things with it. (That is, if your dealing with 
cookies)

Joseph Engo
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