I was thinking about using web2py as the authentication platform as it
holds the members database. Or then a LDAP that gets it information from
members database.
The intranet will hold a lot of information that should be visible on
the website via the CMS. Either lots of small info (names, telephone
numbers) or maybe whole pages. Could iframe be a way of displaying data
from web2y on a webpage?
Kenneth
This kind of information is often stored in a corporate directory
using something called LDAP. I am not sure of the size of your company
but it sounds like it is large enough to consider this solution. There
is OpenLDAP on Linux or Active Directory on Microsoft which perform
this task as concrete examples of product. The web2py server has a
contrib module for using LDAP authentication which is documented in
the manual. Check if your CMS is capable of this as well.
The web2py server has a very diverse set of authentication mechanisms
such as SMTP server login etc. This would get you username and
password in one location but not a hierarchy or org chart.
Since the choice of CMS is unknown at this point it is difficult to
tell if it is open enough to be able to refer to tables in the web2py
portion of the infrastructure.
A couple of ideas,
Ron
