[TYPO3-dev] How to use external Webservice for Login?

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Widmann, Manfred wrote:
> We have got an external webservice which gets user/password as parameters 
> and returns a usergroup (or "invalid") as result.
> 
> We want to use this for TYPO3-Login to get real TYPO3 users almost like they 
> would log in with newloginbox  ... how we are doing this in a secure way?

You need a custom authentication service for TYPO3. I think I saw such thing for LDAP in TER. You may want to take that as basis and update for your needs.

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