Re: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Björn Schotte <[email protected]>:
> 
> > But Auth is not a specific solution, Auth is very generic. And,
> > another reason for placing these things in PEAR/ and not in
> > PHPLib/ is that auth is such a basic thing for so many applications
> > that it should be "PEAR Auth".
> 
> Can you use phplib's auth to authenticate someone by ip address? What about by 
> username and password but only if they're coming from a certain ip address? The 
> list goes on and on... it's not generic.

from auth.inc:

  ##
  ## Authentication dummies. Must be overridden by user.
  [...]
  function auth_validatelogin() { ; }

you have to subclass the Auth-class from phplib to use it. You can do in
your auth_validatelogin()-method what you want, it just has to (or should?) 
return false or a valid uid.

What can be more generic?

messju

> I'm building such a system, btw, but I don't want to force it on anyone.
> 
> -chuck
> 
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