Re: Using external authentication with Archiva/Redback

2011-04-13 Thread Brent Atkinson
Dustin, As long as you're willing to accept the risks, it might be possible to write a simple redback authentication provider that simply uses the sent header information. Authorization, as Brett mentioned, is still something you'll have to handle at the application level. Brent On Wed, Apr 13,

Re: Using external authentication with Archiva/Redback

2011-04-13 Thread Brett Porter
Unfortunately, only the /repository/ section uses basic auth headers - so it might work for those, but not the webapp that relies on cookies being set. Even so, you'd have to hook it up to LDAP for the user details. At present, we don't store any roles in LDAP - they are always in the Archiva us

Using external authentication with Archiva/Redback

2011-04-12 Thread Dustin Parker
Hello all, Our httpd hosts a large variety of web applications using various technologies, including a mod_jk proxy to Tomcat, where archiva is hosted. It also protects everything with SSL and mod_sspi, meaning that users get an authentication prompt and use their domain credentials to log in.