Re: [Dspace-tech] Implicit authentication issues . . .

2008-04-22 Thread Michael White
Hi Simon, You wrote: > It might be worthwhile, at least as a workaround, to change the code > to attempt an implicit auth at the beginning of the request rather > than waiting for it to fail at the end. Something like this: > > In DSpaceServlet.processRequest(), after the lines: > >// O

Re: [Dspace-tech] Implicit authentication issues . . .

2008-04-22 Thread Simon Brown
On 21 Apr 2008, at 16:53, Michael White wrote: > Hi, > > Unfortunately I've been sidetracked with other tasks, so only just > coming back to look at my implicit authentication problems first > raised > a couple of weeks ago . . . > > Using DSpace v1.4.2. This DSpace is being used as a Learning O

Re: [Dspace-tech] Implicit authentication issues . . .

2008-04-21 Thread Mark Diggory
On Mar 28, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Christophe Dupriez wrote: > > But beware: > 1) Standard JNDI Authentication and Realm Login Module does not > implement recursive gathering of groups to which user belongs > (groups of groups are not found) Recursive Groups are bad, I'm sorry to see DSpace support

Re: [Dspace-tech] Implicit authentication issues . . .

2008-04-21 Thread Michael White
Hi, Unfortunately I've been sidetracked with other tasks, so only just coming back to look at my implicit authentication problems first raised a couple of weeks ago . . . Using DSpace v1.4.2. This DSpace is being used as a Learning Object repository and all the items in the repository are protec

Re: [Dspace-tech] Implicit authentication issues . . .

2008-03-28 Thread Christophe Dupriez
I have the same problem (and users complaints). I am studying the possibility to use server based authentication (Tomcat) to ease SSO implementation and make it more standard based. Anyone has done this? The idea is that using "basic authentication" (which has a "Remember password" option) (a

Re: [Dspace-tech] Implicit authentication issues . . .

2008-03-28 Thread James Rutherford
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:27:41PM +, Michael White wrote: > Problem 1: > === > If a user logs in to our portal and then accesses DSpace and clicks > "My DSpace", the authentication class kicks in and they end up at > their My DSpace page . . . Fine. > > > > However, if a user logs on to

[Dspace-tech] Implicit authentication issues . . .

2008-03-28 Thread Michael White
Hi, I have integrated (one of) our DSpace instances (running v1.4.2) with our (home grown) portal authentication by creating an implicit authentication class that checks for our portal authentication cookies, and if they are there (and valid), it creates a DSpace authentication context for the us