Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-21 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Régis, On Wed, 21. Jan 2015 at 08:27:58 -0800, Régis Haubourg wrote: > When you say it is covered already by Qt, what does that mean to achieve use > cases like autocredentials for postgis layers or WMS layers for instance? > We still need the current QEP or am I missing something? (I 'm absol

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-21 Thread Régis Haubourg
HI Jurgen, When you say it is covered already by Qt, what does that mean to achieve use cases like autocredentials for postgis layers or WMS layers for instance? We still need the current QEP or am I missing something? (I 'm absolutly outside of my skill circle) Cheers Régis -- View this mes

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-21 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Régis, On Wed, 21. Jan 2015 at 06:38:26 -0800, Régis Haubourg wrote: > Larry_S wrote > > Can you expound upon how this info is accessed, what exactly is used, and > > how it would be used? Then, an authentication config and provider can > > possibly be crafted. > > We use NTLM v2 here: http:/

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-21 Thread Régis Haubourg
Larry_S wrote > Can you expound upon how this info is accessed, what exactly is used, and > how it would be used? Then, an authentication config and provider can > possibly be crafted. We use NTLM v2 here: http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html Régis -- View this message in context: http

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-21 Thread Régis Haubourg
Thanks for the explanations Larry. I hope having technical infos on what we use here for authentification soon. Having the scripts, or some snippets would help. We already use python / bash / powershell scripts to manage user profiles (deploy new settings, check settings, migrate profile content

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-20 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi Régis, On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Régis Haubourg < regis.haubo...@eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote: > Hi Larry, very interesting QEP! > > I'm not an expert of authentification systems at all. Here, I would love to > have QGIS be able to auto identify itself using Windows session user > inform

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-20 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Anyone have any ideas on who a good person to review this kind of code? - Nathan On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Larry Shaffer wrote: > Hi, > > I have drafted a QEP [0] for the introduction of a new authentication > configuration system that is protected with a master password, and its > assoc

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-20 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 20/01/2015 12:31, Anita Graser ha scritto: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: >> Sorry - I can't comment on a technical level. >> But as a user I very much welcome such a safe password/connection storage > > +1 fully agree with Andreas. same here thanks -- Paolo Cava

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-20 Thread Anita Graser
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Sorry - I can't comment on a technical level. > But as a user I very much welcome such a safe password/connection storage +1 fully agree with Andreas. Best wishes, Anita ___ Qgis-developer mail

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-20 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Larry, Sorry - I can't comment on a technical level. But as a user I very much welcome such a safe password/connection storage combined with a password manager. I bothered me a lot to see passwords when hovering a layer in the layer manager, and to see the plain text connection info in the

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-19 Thread Régis Haubourg
Hi Larry, very interesting QEP! I'm not an expert of authentification systems at all. Here, I would love to have QGIS be able to auto identify itself using Windows session user information. That's what we do with internal webapps with Firefox. Please consider also use cases for system administrat

[Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-19 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi, I have drafted a QEP [0] for the introduction of a new authentication configuration system that is protected with a master password, and its associated pull request [1], which includes a fully functional implementation with bindings, unit tests and test server (Tomcat/GeoServer). Direct link