On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Ross Boylan <r...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Suppose I have apache running in front of a web application and > subversion. > > I am thinking of a scenario in which the web application provides a > login page. However, the user may also browse to web pages served by > subversion. > > Is there a way that my app can have someone log in and then pass the > identity and authentication "up" to appache? In particular, I'd want > this authentication used if the user browsed over to the subversion > repository. > > I'm assume a common source, e.g., LDAP, will provide user and password > information that is the same for my app and apache. > > A final wrinkle is that the application itself may access subversion via > http:// (https?) using either the identity of the user or, perhaps, a > separate identity the application runs under.
Have you investigated single sign-on solutions such as CAS and OpenSSO? -- Nick Owen WiKID Systems, Inc. 404.962.8983 http://www.wikidsystems.com Commercial/Open Source Two-Factor Authentication --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
