From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: HWJ <hwj+galene@secure.mailbox.org>
Cc: galene@lists.galene.org
Subject: [Galene] Re: Is the passwd file still needed?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:23:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s7jhqrr.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDAEso0xTvoIg+hJ@local>
(Adding back the list)
HWJ <hwj+galene@secure.mailbox.org> writes:
>>I.e., Galene can ask third-party services to authenticate a user ID,
>>with the passwd file being the default?
>
> I really like this idea.
>
> Maybe the "third-party service" could just be a shell script, that gets
> the group, username, and password as $1, $2, and $3 respectively.
> Then everybody could implement his own authentication system, e.g. using
> LDAP/AD (which is common in educational institutions).
Yeah, just calling an external program would be one obvious API. Another
(and maybe Galene should do both natively?) would be to call an external
web service.
-Toke
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-20 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-19 9:52 [Galene] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-02-19 10:44 ` [Galene] " Michael Ströder
2021-02-19 11:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-02-19 12:47 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2021-02-19 13:01 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-02-19 13:13 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2021-02-19 13:19 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2021-02-19 13:36 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-02-20 0:52 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2021-02-20 10:06 ` Rémi Nollet
2021-02-20 11:49 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-02-20 12:09 ` Michael Ströder
2021-02-20 12:22 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-02-23 15:11 ` Dave Taht
[not found] ` <YDAEso0xTvoIg+hJ@local>
2021-02-20 12:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
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