Re: [mv] Authentication, userdb, Group Login

["Ton Verhagen" <ton@verhagen.net>]

Thanks for your contribution Ryan.

It seems like a good approach.
However, ...see below


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>At 12:46 PM 11/10/1999 , you wrote:
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>>Here are the requirements/restrictions:
>>Company1 -- has a subsription and is allowed to access the
site.
>>All employees (employee_1 ... employee_n) of this company need
to
>>be able to acces the site without having to login individually.
>
>         Sounds like you could model from the Unix permission
>scheme.  Users (employees) would be part of a group (the
company).

You are right, but how can we achieve that the employees do not
have to login by themselves? The idea is that the company logs
in, say once a day, and all employees (on diffferent PCs in
office) can access the site without having to bother about login
procedures. Also, every employee should get his private session.


>>Managers (manager_1 ... manager_n) get extra priviliges (eg.
>>update files or order products) when they login with a username
>>and password.
>
>         Add a field in the userdb that contains a numeric
privilige.

This is indeed a workable solution. The bits in the number could
set the allowed priviliges. Thanks!

>
>>Managers must be able to access the site from anywhere (eg.
home,
>>office, etc).
>>
>>All employees and managers accessing the site (catalog) must
have
>>his own session.
>>
>>Multiple companies can subscribe to the site of course.
>>Note: Some companies have a fixed IP address but not all of
them.
>>
>>At present we haven't been able to figure out how to address
this
>>problem. Has anyone worked on something similar or has anyone
any
>>idea how to implement this authentication scheme? Any pointers
>>are welcome.
>>
>>Thanks a lot for your kind cooperation.
>>
>>Best regards
>>
>>Ton
>>
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