[Zope-PAS] Id mangling.

Zachery Bir zbir at urbanape.com
Thu Sep 9 12:17:59 EDT 2004


On Sep 9, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Zachery Bir wrote:

> On Sep 9, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>
>> Zachery Bir wrote:
>>> As it currently stands, there can be perfectly valid arguments for 
>>> the plugin prefix to be based on either the authenticator or the 
>>> enumerator
>>
>> Really? What would the argument for letting the prefix be the 
>> authenticator be? I can't see any use case for that...
>
> A PAS set-up with no enumerators.
>
> Zope authenticates against the credentials vetted by an upstream 
> authentication system.
>
> Like I said, our current Shibboleth authentication system does just 
> this. All requests coming into Zope are pre-vetted by Shibboleth, Zope 
> just accepts the credentials, without requiring an enumerator.

In any case, it's quickly becoming moot. We'll be revamping the 
prefixing.

Zac



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