Yes. we should have this. It is not difficult to do. Can you help?
On Apr 1, 6:13 am, Anand Vaidya <anandvaidya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be awesome if we could authenticate as easily as this
> against:
>
> LDAP ( OpenLDAP as well as AD): This would be the Enterprise
> requirement #1
> Auth against an external MySQL / PG db (does this already exist?)
> Auth against /etc/passwd (is this a bad idea) or maybe, Apache
> htpasswd
> Auth with Certificates. (PKI)
>
> I used to write some Java portlets for Gridsphere (http://www.gridsphere.org)
> some of these work out of the box there (LDAP etc)
>
> For ideas on addons, please see the amazing Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) :
> There are literally hundreds of modules built by the
> community.
>
> Regards
> Anand
>
> On Apr 1, 12:16 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > This is already in Auth. Auth actually does more than unix-like group
> > based access control. It does Role based access control (group based
> > is a particular case).
>
> > gid=auth.add_group(role='Manager')
> > auth.add_membership(gid, auth.user.id)
> > auth.add_permission(gid,'call function f')
>
> > @auth.requires_permission('call function f')
> > def f(): return 1
>
> > On Mar 31, 11:01 pm, Vidul Petrov <vidul.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > IMHO such lightweight applications/utilities would make WEB2PY the
> > > only so capable MVC player.
> > > In addition I'd like to request comments on, let's call it feature -
> > > now that Auth is in not an add-on, is there are a place for (optional)
> > > UNIX-like users/resources management?
> > > In short: each resource - every controler/action/etc. owned by a given
> > > user/group, otherwise an user/group "nobody" or "guest".
>
> > > Does this make any sense?
>
> > > On Apr 1, 6:29 am, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Not sure what you would want to port here; If I take this at face
> > > > value,
> > > > here's what is currently documented (I've highlited what I thought
> > > > might be
> > > > interesting from a web2py perspective).
> > > > In general, I think idea of having a package of light weight
> > > > applications /
> > > > utilities is something both useful, and (at some level) something we're
> > > > doing w/ tools... auth, etc.
>
> > > > - email confirmation
> > > > - This simple app is for cases where you don’t want to require an
> > > > email address to signup on your website but you do still want to
> > > > ask for an
> > > > email address and be able to confirm it for use in optional parts
> > > > of your
> > > > website
> > > > - timezones
> > > > - threaded comments
> > > > - with moderation....
> > > > - ajax validation
> > > > - uses jquery
> > > > - flags
> > > > - This app lets users of your site flag content as inappropriate
> > > > or
> > > > spam.
> > > > - pagination
> > > > - oembed
> > > > - notification
> > > > - mailer ---- with a mail cue, this _might_ be interesting...
> > > > - dbtemplates
> > > > - robots
>
> > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:12 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu>
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > Perhaps we should do it ourself for real.
>
> > > > > On Mar 31, 7:11 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Guys - this is a Joke .... (see also the "fued between pinax and
> > > > > > django")....
> > > > > > see: http://www.ponyransom.com/
>
> > > > > > and: http://www.pinaxenvy.com/
>
> > > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:28 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu>
> > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > >http://twitter.com/jtauber/status/1420954914
>
> > > > > > > James. Are you here?
>
> > > > > > > Massimo
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