Re: Centralizled Authentication

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami <behzad.eslami@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear list, > > We have dozen of applications, mostly written in PHP and Python. > They're distributed on different servers, but i'm trying to integrate them > somehow. > > Each application has its own users. > Is there a way to store all username/passwords into a single datasource > and give each user, her proper permissions? > > Since i'm just a php-programmer, i *thought* of a MySQL database to > hold these data, and then use a SOAP-Server to handle the authentication > across those applications. > > Once a user provides her username/password, a SOAP Request will be > made to a PHP-Driven Authentication Server, which handles the job to > check the permissions and user's identity. > > It sounds slow, isn't it? Is there a better solution? > How do you make authentication across a network of applications? > > OAuth comes to mind... -- http://blogs.linux.ie/kenguest/