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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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The user +</I>><i> sends his login and passwords to phpbb which use it to authenticate on +</I>><i> ldap server. Because of this, someone with root access on the forums +</I>><i> server can access password of any user connecting to the forums. And +</I>><i> because important passwords are transfered, the connection needs to be +</I>><i> in SSL, so the *.mageia.org certificate also needs to be installed. So +</I>><i> access to the server needs to be restricted to sysadmin team only, who +</I>><i> also need to be able to check what is being done on forums, check it is +</I>><i> secure, etc ... And I think this makes forums admins not happy. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As we are using ldap for authentication only (not for groups or anything +</I>><i> else), I think we could do authentication differently. Maybe we could +</I>><i> setup a mageia OpenID server linked to the ldap server. Then on the +</I>><i> forums use OpenID for authentication, when a user enter his login on +</I>><i> the forums he is redirected to the mageia OpenID authentication page +</I>><i> for the login entered. Then we can disable https on the forums, and +</I>><i> forum admins can be root on the forums server. And passwords are better +</I>><i> protected in case phpbb has a vulnerability. +</I>><i> +</I> +One question... + +Why would forum admins need to be root ? + +Most things can be managed with specific user/group permissions on +needed files & dirs. same goes for sql... just add db user with needed +permissions... + + +><i> Sysadmin team would manage openid server. And forum team would manage +</I>><i> forums server. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I've seen this project for phpbb3 openid authentication (I didn't check +</I>><i> if there are others) : +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbb-openid/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbb-openid/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Login form looks like this : +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=91989">http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=91989</A> +</I>><i> We would need to modify it to remove Username/Password. Replace "OpenID" +</I>><i> with "Mageia login" and automatically use Mageia OpenID server with the +</I>><i> login entered. So that each account on the forum is still linked to a +</I>><i> Mageia account. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What do you think ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> _______________________________________________ +</I>><i> Mageia-sysadm mailing list +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">Mageia-sysadm at mageia.org</A> +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm</A> +</I>><i> . +</I>><i> +</I> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003331.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Users authentication on forums +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003372.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Users authentication on forums +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3332">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3332">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3332">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3332">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">More information about the Mageia-sysadm +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |