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Posted to user@turbine.apache.org by Philip <su...@wachtel.us> on 2003/06/30 22:31:03 UTC
Custom Authentication off of IMAP/Mail
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Hi there,
Forgive me if my question has an obvious answer, but I'm trying to get used
to the Turbine paradigm and I haven't completely seen "the light" yet.
I'm looking to create an IMAP mail interface using Turbine. I'd like the
login action to authenticate off of the IMAP mail authentication.
Questions:
1. Do I even need a TurbineUser object? What about user information in the
database? Do I even need it if I'm simply accessing data from the IMAP
server.
2. Where do I store session information, like the IMAP connection?
3. What would be the general approach to this kind of project?
Like I said, these are the questions of a newbie, so thanks for keeping that
in mind.
Regards,
Philip
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Re: Custom Authentication off of IMAP/Mail
Posted by Philip <su...@wachtel.us>.
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Henning,
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I'm planning on using javamail 1.3. It's a pretty good package.
I was afraid that you'd say that it'll be rough to use IMAP authentication
solely.
Thanks for your advice regarding IMAP service. I'll check it out.
Regards,
Philip
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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hp...@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: Custom Authentication off of IMAP/Mail
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> "Philip" <su...@wachtel.us> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I did a similar thing (say, do you btw need an imap users management
> tool? ;-) ) by using Cyrus Imapd with SASL2 and LDAP backend for users
> authentication; LDAP driven by an SQL backend itself and ran Turbine
> on the same SQL tables as the LDAP server.
>
> Today, I'd probably recommend using the LDAP Security Service and
> LDAP+SASL2 for your IMAP server.
>
> If you really want to run Security on the same passwords as your imap
> server, you need some way to access the IMAP server user database. If
> you have only IMAP access, you might want to try to use the javax.mail
> package which provides some "logging into imap" functionality and then
> use its return codes to build a custom security service. This doesn't
> sound too easy, though and you would have trouble getting the groups,
> roles and permissions there.
>
> Regards
> Henning
>
> --
> Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH
> hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/
>
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> freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire
>
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> you know that they won't process the message." --- Jonathan Revusky
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Re: Custom Authentication off of IMAP/Mail
Posted by "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hp...@intermeta.de>.
"Philip" <su...@wachtel.us> writes:
Hi,
I did a similar thing (say, do you btw need an imap users management
tool? ;-) ) by using Cyrus Imapd with SASL2 and LDAP backend for users
authentication; LDAP driven by an SQL backend itself and ran Turbine
on the same SQL tables as the LDAP server.
Today, I'd probably recommend using the LDAP Security Service and
LDAP+SASL2 for your IMAP server.
If you really want to run Security on the same passwords as your imap
server, you need some way to access the IMAP server user database. If
you have only IMAP access, you might want to try to use the javax.mail
package which provides some "logging into imap" functionality and then
use its return codes to build a custom security service. This doesn't
sound too easy, though and you would have trouble getting the groups,
roles and permissions there.
Regards
Henning
--
Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH
hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/
Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services
freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire
--- Quote of the week: "It is pointless to tell people anything when
you know that they won't process the message." --- Jonathan Revusky
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