CMS Feature: Integration with FAS?

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:37 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:


> There is an OpenID provider in FAS.  The problem is that openid can only
> do authentication, not authorization.  If we want to store group
> information in FAS (and we do... but it may or may not be essential)
> then we need to go beyond OpenID.
> 
> FAS provides a JSON API for people to query.  That's how mediawiki and
> the TG web applications work.  koji and the actual servers on which
> fedora infrastructure runs are synced from the fas server on an hourly
> cron job.
> 
> If possible, using the JSON API is the way to go.

So FAS does its own authorization & authentication, rather than using
another system to which we can plug in?
 
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Basil Mohamed Gohar
abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org
www.basilgohar.com
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