Authentication in 1.3

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Hi All,

Just a quick (and probably silly) question.

Have any firm decisions been made about how authentication is going to  
be handled in 1.3?  I ask in light of the recent discussions about CRM  
and the roadmap.  A small idea is beginning to germinate in my head,  
but my time is very much limited at the moment so I don't know whether  
it will go anywhere.

Will it be possible (for me) to write an authentication module to  
allow LSMB to authenticate against an external app?  I've been looking  
at trunk, and I can see that the current authentication scheme  
requires a valid database user, and these credentials are then used to  
log in to the database itself.  I also note that the role-based  
security is built on postgres roles, and I'm wondering if the future  
of LSMB is going to require user accounts on the database itself.  If  
so, I guess I would need to use external authentication at the  
database level instead of at the app level.

Or is authentication still to be decided upon, and I should just go  
away and come back in a few months?  (This would be a perfectly  
acceptable answer to me - I'm not doing anything which is  
time-critical or resource-hungry, just a bit of speculative  
programming).

Richard

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