Re: [xwiki-devs] anonymous user / custom authentication

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? ------ 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 -> > _______________________________________________ -> > devs mailing list -> > devs(a)xwiki.org -> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -> _______________________________________________ -> devs mailing list -> devs(a)xwiki.org -> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs ->