Re: CMS Using IIS Authentication
Henri Bergius <[email protected]>
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Greetings! Petr PALAS wrote: > I'm quite surprised that you haven't found any vendor providing > integrated Windows authentication since it's quite easy to implement it. > I believe that vendors could offer you some workaround. For example in > ASP.NET, if the vendor uses the standard authentication mechanism, it's > just a question of simple configuration. Maybe you could also try to > look for "NTLM authentication" which is basicaly the Windows domain > authentication. NTLM authentication support is not limited to the Windows platform or ASP.Net. Samba 3.0.x (www.samba.org) provides a commandline utility called ntlm_auth which can be used for implementing NTLM single sign-on on CMSs running on Unix and Linux systems. This is what we did with the Midgard Open Source CMS. Some links on the subject: http://www.midgard-project.org/updates/2003-04-09-001.html http://midgard.tigris.org/source/browse/midgard/src/httpd/apache1/INSTALL-NTLM?rev=1.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup In addition to NTLM single sign-on, authentication integration between Windows and Unix systems can be accomplished with PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). With this it is possible to share usernames and passwords between a Windows domain or Active Directory and a CMS. Again, here are some resources on how it works with Midgard: http://www.midgard-project.org/updates/2004-03-22-000.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=midgard-user&m=108262491806203&w=2 Hopefully this helps. > Petr Palas /Henri -- Henri Bergius Henri.Bergius-ZpG/[email protected] Consultant Partner Tel: +358-20-198 6032 Nemein Oy http://www.nemein.com/