Re: cosign and LDAP authentication?

[Mark Montague <markmont@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Brian Hatch wrote:

> > Is anyone using cosign to authenticate users via LDAP instead of
> > Kerberos?

> Check the archives for my emails - I'm doing this (on a 1.7.0 version,
> IIRC) by replacing the default CGIs which check for an existing
> valid cookie, if none is present it asks for authentication, when
> you submit it gets the credentials and checks them against LDAP, and
> if they are correct it will call the real cosign CGI with REMOTE_USER
> already set which will trust the cookie and make everything work.
>
> Details should be in my old emails, or I can send you the
> package I've built up.  Not terribly sexy.

Thanks!  No need to send the package now -- we'll see what our
external user (a K-12 school) decides to do.  We can check the
old emails if necessary.

                Mark Montague
                The University of Michigan
                markmont@xxxxxxxxx