Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Martin Feller <>]

I try to integrate the light UI into an existing webpage. After logging into 
that webpage information about
the user (like username) is stored in a cookie. I don't want an additional 
basic authentication step when the group
management page is rendered, but rather have the Grouper UI servlet use the 
information from the cookie to get the user id.
All works fine, I see the cookies, but I think I need to do changes in the 
filter code to accomplish this.
Having a declarative option, like in grouper-ws, would be cleaner, I guess

Thanks,

Martin

On 2/14/11 3:28 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> What authentication mechanism do you want to use?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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> Subject: [grouper-users] lite ui and authentication mechanism
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> Hi,
> 
> Can somebody please confirm the following?
> 
> I was trying to write a custom authentication mechanism and hook it into 
> the Prototype Lite UI, as described
> here: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Authentication
> 
> But I think this won't work, because the mechanisms described there are 
> only for grouper-ws.
> The lite UI servlet that handles the AJAX calls from grouper.html, or 
> rather the service logic classes used by the
> lite UI servlet, call a static method of the GrouperUI filter to get the 
> remote user though.
> 
> So there's no configuration-only way to change the authentication mechanism 
> for this UI, right?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Martin