[TYPO3-dev] "How" Fe-Users got Authentificated

[Steffen Kamper]

"Steffen Ritter" <info at rs-websystems.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1213346838.30211.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hey list,
> I'm currently searching for the following:
> I wrote my own auth service, for authenticating net-users over 
> ip/mac-Adress combination which works fine so far.
> Now we want to add functionalities to allow Users to sign in, if they are 
> not in the network. F.E. connected by VPN oder maybe simply watching the 
> page over internet from another location.
> For this I could show a login if users not authentificated. But I also 
> would need a logout button for this case. Since ip/mac-authentificated 
> users cannot logout (they would be logged in while loading the logout page 
> again) there should not be a Logout button for them.
> So I need to check which service granted users rights. Is there any place 
> in TSFE where this is stored? Or where should be the place I can store it.
> My idea was to let my Service store a information such as macauth=1 in 
> TSFE where authinfos are stored. Bzt what is the "right" way to do that? 
> Simply add a field to the users record which I can could check with TS 
> conditions or are there any custom-configuration arrays in TSFE Object 
> which are ceckable by conditions and may be set by auth service?
>
> kind regards
>
> Steffen

Hi Steffen,

if you use your own auth service you are free to store things wherever you 
want.
I think best way is to store such informations in the user session, which is 
available in TSFE

vg Steffen