[Product-Developers] Retrieve external users credentials

[Yuri]

Il 02/03/2011 11:28, toutpt ha scritto:
> storing plain-text password is a security issue by design.
>
> I need to update it but I have done sth similar in collective.sugarcrm. The
> authentication should be done on the external services, and you are supposed
> to store the session id (valid for a short time period) that let the current
> authenticated user access to some external resources.
>    

  This mean you can tell to others "hey, use this external service for 
your users". This cannot be possible in every situation, for example 
when the counterpart is not very collaborative, or you've a legacy 
system. Sometimes the world is not perfect :P

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