19 Mar
2011
19 Mar
'11
11:33 a.m.
On 03/14/2011 06:47 PM, Kevin P. Foote wrote:
OK thanks .. that's working well .. for scenario 1)
Now .. even post restarts. I can not get the value to work when setting
xwiki.authentication.loginpage=/where/mylogin/shouldgo
Does this need to be set somewhere else as well?
Why do you want to change the login page? Unless it sits in a different
application, outside XWiki, you should just configure your authenticator
to perform its magic in the default URL.
Normally, for changing the authentication mechanism, you should write a
java class extending com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.XWikiAuthServiceImpl
and registering it in xwiki.cfg at the xwiki.authentication.authclass
key, for example:
xwiki.authentication.authclass=com.xwiki.authentication.ntlm.NTLMAuthServiceImpl
If you only want to change how the username/password check is done, you
can override only the authenticate method and hook to your custom
authenticator.
There are various example authenticators which you can start from at
http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/authenticators/
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thanks
kevin.foote
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
-> Hi Kevin,
->
-> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 16:33, Kevin P. Foote<kpfoote(a)iup.edu> wrote:
->
-> >
-> > Hi devs,
-> >
-> > In writing my own auth plugin I want the ability to run XWiki in
-> > anonymous browsing mode as well as the login request triggering my
-> > particular auth jar (much like xwiki.org - you can many pages w/out
-> > actually authenticating). I have two resulting questions.
-> >
-> > 1)
-> > Is there a magic user name in the form of XWiki."anonymous"/Guest
etc..
-> > that I can return in my checkAuth? OR am I thinking about this
-> > incorrectly and xwiki already knows that this user is who the context is
-> > representing..
-> >
->
-> There's already the virtual XWiki.XWikiGuest .
->
-> #if($context.user == "XWiki.XWikiGuest")
-> some content
-> #end
->
-> will display content only for non-authenticated users for instance.
->
-> Guillaume
->
-> 2)
-> > I see in reading the xwiki.cfg and tutuorials on how to run your own
-> > authentication code that there is a way to override the login page
-> > within the config. Is there also a way to "override" the call to
the
-> > login? I know in (cough,cough) confluence they have a seraph mechanism
-> > that you can override what the login action is... looking for something
-> > similar here..
-> > I've thought of perhaps using an apache rewrite rule on the
-> > login/XWikiLogin page to trigger my auth
-> >
-> > Thanks guys..
-> >
-> > ------
-> > thanks
-> > kevin.foote
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