Re: New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

I won't rule that out. And I to be clear, I read the PEAR descriptor on LiveUser. It may aim at the same tasks, I agree there, but the *big* differences are a) web service-based and b) architected to support single sign-on. Again, I have a big picture in mind which is to support the liberty project's interfaces which can be done minimal work with what we I have. Don't read this wrong, I'm taking it a tad personal just because I wrote it but if you have a plan for how these two might be merged I'd like to hear them. The guts of it (authentication/authorization) are trivial IMHO. The real value is having it as a service and on a platform that can meet Enterprise needs. --Tony On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Markus Wolff wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:37:29 -0600 (CST) > Tony Bibbs <tony@tonybibbs.com> wrote: > > > I have a package still in alpha but has most of the key components > > working. It is aimed to be an Enterprise Authentication & Authorization > > service. The key features are: > > > > 1) XML-RPC based (future version moved to SOAP/WSDL) > > 2) Implements a single-credential set across multiple applications > > 3) Extendable. This library uses the concept of a provider. By default > > it will ship with a SQL Provider (using PEAR::DB) and can be easily > > adapted for LDAP or any custom needs. (I could use help with LDAP if there > > are any takers) > > 4) 100% OO, PHP client will return a serializable user object that holds > > all authorization data for a user. > > 5) Extensive logging. Troubleshooting can be a pain when the client and > > server are separated. This is alleviated a bit using PEAR::Log > > Hi Tony, > > from the end of your mail I can see that you didn´t take a look at > LiveUser. Basically this package does pretty much exactly what your > package seems to do, but it doesn´t have an XML-RPC driver/provider yet > (only one authentication driver based on PEAR::DB and two authorisation > drivers, both also based on PEAR::DB, but implementing different feature > sets). > > The concepts sound identical - maybe the two packages can benefit from > each other? > > Regards, > Markus > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tony Bibbs | "I guess you have to remember that those who don't | tony@tonybibbs.com | hunt or fish often see those of us who do as | | harmlessly strange and sort of amusing. When you | | think about it, that might be a fair assessment." | | --Unknown | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|