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[Serge Aumont <address@concealed>]

Steven Peterson wrote:
> We recently upgraded from Sympa 5.3.1 to 5.4.7 and are having trouble
> with our authentication.  We used to have an external application
> authenticate the user, set the sympauser cookie, then redirect the
> visitor's browser to the /sympa page at the destination sympa site.
> This no longer works and I see there is new session management in
> Sympa 5.4.  Can we still authenticate externally and pass in a cookie
> or post to a sympa URL to start a session?
>
> - Steve
>   
This is still possible but you are right the way to do it have changed.
The goal is to connect to Sympa session_table test if an existing
session allready exist (if the user is already logued with Sympa and to
store a new session row if the external application as authenticated the
user with it's own method.

We have received a contrib for that (php but it may done by any other way).
http://www.sympa.org/contribs/index#how_to_share_sympa_session_with_other_php_applications

This section of the manual is complety out of date. Sorry for that.
http://www.sympa.org/manual/authentication#sharing_wwsympa_s_authentication_with_other_applications