Authentication. getRemoteUser?

Pavel <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:32:48 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.jakarta.pluto.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

I'm implementing my own authentication in my portal and I'd like it to 
propagate to portlets. AFAIU request.getRemoteUser() is the only 
JSR-168ish way... Is there any way to control it? I don't see anything 
in the Pluto SPI, and the implementation of the PortletRequest just gets 
the RemoteUser straight from HttpServletRequest. But according to 
PLT.11.1.6 of JSR-168 spec I should be able to implement my own AuthType.

Are there any plans for an optional AuthenticationService?

Thanks,

Pavel