Hello Stephan, The short answer is yes, it is possible. But you will need to do some work to make it happen.
The long answer is Yeeeeeessssssss. Basically, Catalyst authentication is split into two pieces Credentials and Stores. A Store finds / holds the users. A credential is responsible for comparing the authentication information with a user (somehow) and determining whether they are who they claim to be. It is possible to use LDAP to authenticate the user, but store that user's information in the database. Unfortunately there are not any LDAP credentials. There is an LDAP store, but it expects that role information is stored in LDAP also. So what you need to do is create a credential that verifies your user via LDAP (probably using Catalyst::Model::LDAP) and then use the DBIx::Class Store to store your user information. Alternately you could create a module that subclasses (or even just wraps) the LDAP store and override the role related methods to access the database. As someone else mentioned, the Internals doc in Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication explains in detail how credentials / stores work... I doubt you'd have much trouble. Let me know if you need any more information. JayK On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 20:58 +0200, Stephan Jennewein wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to use ldap to authenticate and dbic (a database) to handle the > user role relation ? So that it works like it resides all in one storage > backend. > If yes how do I configure that in the $application.conf ? > > Stephan > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
