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<H1>[Mageia-sysadm] Users authentication on forums</H1>
<B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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<PRE>nicolas vigier skrev 11.4.2011 15:39:
><i> Hello,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> For authentication on the forums, we are currently using ldap. 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 ?
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