[Typo3] FE-user authentication against text file

[Olivier Dobberkau]

Søren Schaffstein wrote:
> Hi list
>
> For one of our clients we need to have a text file as additional
> reference for fe-user authentication. Meaning if a fe-user wants to
> login typo3 checks if the user may login in a) the normal database
> and b) in a text file. If either succeeds access is granted.
>
> The reason behind this: The client has an often changing user-list
> which is created in one of his databases. (holding some thousand
> users) New users are only added in the clients db and so at least
> once a week a new text file would be generated from the db to be
> uploaded to the server.

hello soren,

have a look at some of the auth services...
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/search/cc_ipauth/

they should give you a hint how to authenticate against a file.

greetings,
olivier