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(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