Re: New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

It is trivial in the sense that this problem has been solved probably a million times. There is nothing complex about authentication and authorization of users. Making a A&A solution that can be extended to hit different authentication modules is a key step that both libraries have taken on. YOu could even argue that exposing either package as a web service is fairly trivial given all the hard work on the various PHP SOAP libraries. Single-sign on, however, is not trivial. Planning for that is critical in my opinion and then supporting the Liberty project fits right into that. BTW, I don't mean to belittle you, I just don't see how A&A, the guts, is complex. --Tony On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:10:01 -0600 (CST) > Tony Bibbs <tony@tonybibbs.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > We have exactly the same plan :), anyway, competive packages are > possible in pear. > > > The guts of it (authentication/authorization) are trivial IMHO. > > It's not so trivial, and it is a different level. > > > The real value is having it as a service and on a platform that can > > meet Enterprise needs. > > I always like to read this kind of marketing sentences ;-)) > > pierre > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| 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 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|