How to automatically authenticate users

[catar4]

Serendipity and NTLM authentification

Greetings. I’m dropping by in hopes that you will be able to help me with my questionning. You see, I’m currently setting up a Weblog for my company and I’m now at the stage where I’m testing different softwares to do the right choice. Serendipity is amongst those I decided to test and I’d like to know if it’s compatible with NTLM authentification.

Here’s some additional informations on how our Weblog is setup:

1) Our weblog will be hosted on our server (running on Windows server 2003) and it’s going to be on Intranet (so only computers connected to the intranet will have access to it)
2) Authentification on our Intranet sites are automatic with NTLM authentification, we never have to type usernames and passwords to access the sites and we’d like our Weblog to work the same and recognize the computer automatically. Since everyone working in the company will be an author on the Weblog with the ability to add Posts as well as comments.

So in resume, I’d like to know if automatic authentification is possible with Serendipity and if so, how would I realize that ?

Thanks in advance.

[garvinhicking]

We have a plugin that acts as an authenticating proxy/cache for LDAP authentication. There's no SingleSignon Capability or whatsoever, though.

There is no NTLM plugin available, and sadly I have no knowledge of how it would be done. However, if it can be done within PHP, it would certainly work as Serendipity has a very modular structure.

If you have some practical examples of PHP applications (forums, guestbooks, whatever) using NTLM I can surely guide you to create a a plugin for that.

However, since Serendipity relies on author information inside SQL tables, any NTLM or LDAPauth system needs to cache the resultsets in our SQL tables, so Serendipity cannot solely act with NTLM/LDAP/whatever.

HTH,
Garvin

[catar4]

I have no knowledge of LDAP authentication but do you think it could be possible to use LDAP to achieve the same thing I wanted to do with NTLM ?

If not I'll keep looking for a way to do it with NTLM. Thanks for the quick answer

[Guest]

Thanks RobA, that's probably the closest thing to a solution for me. I checked it out and will try implementing it.