Re: New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

[snip]it´s as simple as that.[/snip] Don't trivialize that ;-) To be a fair sport, I'll dig around in the LiveUser code when I get a chance to get a feel for the overall design. I'd welcome you to do the same on what I have. There could be a best-of-both-worlds approach here. --Tony On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Markus Wolff 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. > > > > 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. > > Agreed and same here. Support for Liberty Alliance can be integrated > into LiveUser by writing a new container class, it´s as simple as that. > SSO can be achieved by writing a) a container class that queries a i.e. > a SOAP server (this will be used by any application tied to the SSO > service) and b) a SOAP server that takes requests and uses any LiveUser > container to process them. > > The mechanisms are all there, it´s all a question of > container/driver/provider classes, however you wish to call them. > > 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 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|