Forum OpenACS Development: Re: RFC: External Authentication

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Posted by Lars Pind on
Michael,

Thanks for your feedback. It's been incorporated into the doc.

A few comments:

c) Configuration

The term "service contract" is a technical OpenACS term, which corresponds to Java's "interface". It's a way of specifying an API between two software components, which lets you supply different implementations of the same API, the same interface.

As opposed to a legal "service contract" or "support contract" in which a technology company promises to uphold certain levels of service to the client.

The ext-auth doc is talking about the former type of service contract, the technical one, only.

I think a service contract (also called 'acs-service-contract') is the right approach to implementing the local account as well.

h) Password hash

This is how things work currently. I haven't mentioned this, since we're not planning on changing it.

i) Implementation list

Will do.

Thanks again.

/Lars