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[Serge Aumont <address@concealed>]

On 03/04/2010 05:19 AM, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> No, you're right.  But for our little non-profit to implement a
> full-on SSO service so that a single list-owner can verify that his
> subscribers are really members of his list before allowing them to
> access his profile website, and could possibly also avoid having to
> log into his website to do so, seems like staggering overkill.  99.9%
> of our list-owners would have no desire to do any of this, and we
> support large "casual" communities of non-tech-savvy subscribers.
If you want to catch Sympa session in another application, you may use
SympaSession.pm in sole application or write your own module that
recognize Sympa cookie and fetch session information from the session
table. This is a limited approch because cookies will be sent by web
client if the servicess are running on the same host.

Note that the Sympa session will not carry subscription. You will have
to query Sympa soap server for that, even if you are using a real SSO
service.

Some Sympa users are working on a LDAP export of Sympa groups and that's
seem very interresting.

Regards
Serge
>
> On 3/3/10 7:29 AM, David Verdin wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand correctly what you're trying to do. Are you
>> trying to detect the user login from another application ?
>> If you want to implement an SSO, you might probably use a third party
>> login system, such as Shibboleth or CAS. I'm not sure using the
>> native Sympa authentication system is the right option.
>> But, again, I may get you wrong.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>> Le 03/03/2010 15:20, Roger B.A. Klorese a écrit :
>>> Is it possible to detect programmatically whether a user is logged
>>> into WWSympa -- that is, can I find the cookie or otherwise find
>>> out, so I can add pages that leverage the single sign-on?
>>
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