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[Serge Aumont <address@concealed>]

Chris Hastie wrote:
> I'm in the process of migrating various lists from an old version 4
> something or other installation to a bang up to date 5.4.3 installation
> and have hit a problem with integration with another application.
>
> The other application has been 'integrated' with the older sympa
> installation in that on login it sets the sympauser cookie to an
> appropriate value so that the user is also authenticated against sympa.
> According to
> http://www.sympa.org/manual/authentication#sharing_wwsympa_s_authentication_with_other_applications
> this method looks like it should still work. But it doesn't. 
That's a bug in the documentation and in the changelog. This metgod 
can't work anymore. Now (Sympa 5.4) use just one cookie(1) named 
sympa_session. The value of this the primary key of table 
"session_table" in Sympa database (the field is named id_session).

So one of the method to relace the login you have is to fetch session 
attribute from Sympa table ; the field email_session will give you the 
login id of the user. Note that not only authenticated users are using 
Sympa session.

> Is there any way to configure sympa to use the old behaviour?
No
> Failing
> that, is there any documentation on the new system and how to allow
> other apps to handle the authentication? Looks like I might need my app
> to write to sympa's session_table, which doesn't fill me with joy :(
> What's my best option?
>   
I am goin,g to update the documentation and I will send you information 
about it as soon as ready. Why do you say you are going to "write" into 
session_table ? Read is enough.

Serge
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