[Product-Developers] Re: Using a single plone site as an authentication method for other plone sites

[Ross Patterson]

"David Bain" <david.bain at alteroo.com>
writes:

> Looks interesting, I skimmed the README. Two questions:
> 1. Do the sites need to be on the same server/domain etc...?
> 2. What happens if one site is down (network unavailable or whatever)
>    when changing the password?

It accomplishes the single sign-on via a shared persistent object, and
it depends on membrane/remember so the two portals need to be in the
same ZODB tree.  IOW, yes the sites need to be on the same server.

Ross

> On Dec 7, 2007 1:39 AM, Ross Patterson
> <me at rpatterson.net> wrote:
>
>> "David Bain" <david.bain at alteroo.com>
>> writes:
>>
>> > Is there a PAS plugin that makes it possible for a plone site to
>> > act as a sign on server for other Plone sites?
>>
>> I wrote Products.sharedusers a while ago for a client so that a user
>> logged into one plone site could be automatically logged in at other
>> plone sites as well.  It's not an OOTB product, though, it needs
>> integration.  You can find it in the collective:
>>
>> http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/sharedusers/trunk/README.txt>
>> If it looks like it might be useful to you, I'd be happy to advise on
>> its integration if you have any further questions.
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>
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