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Externalize User Management

StatusProposal under development

Withdrawn from consideration

Target Release

Roller Weblogger 4.1

Original Authors

Dave Johnson

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This proposal outlines a plan to make it easy to hook Roller up to an external user management system for user information, user profiles and user roles. The general approach is to define a UserRepostory API, provide a default implementation for Roller, and change UserManager to use that API. Developer could then provide alternative implementations of that API to plug in their own user management systems. Also, to allow more authentication options, we should make it possible to configure Roller to use CMA instead of Acegi.

2.0 Requirements

Proposal satisfies these requirements.

  • Enable Roller to optionally read/write user profile information in an external system
  • Enable Roller to optionally read/write user role information in an external system
  • Increase the number of authentication/authorization options available in Roller by making it possible to configure Container Managed Authentication (CMA) and not only Acegi.
  • Define a User Management API and make it possible to plugin User Management API implementations without having to extend a UserManager implementation.

3.0 Issues

Issues raised and addressed during review process. TBD.

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