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

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> 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.

Right. But your service may only authenticate the user. You still need 
be_user records in the DB. The mentioned LDAP extensions do this by 
syncing the data in a batch job or on-the-fly (ie durung the 
authentication if the user record doesn't exist).

Masi