[TYPO3-english] Sharing authentication between typo3 and apache?

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Is there any plugin for Apache that can make use of typo3's cookies to
> have users authenticated outside typo3 as well?

I do not think such plugin exists. Cookie contains TYPO3 session id. You can find user session by its identifier in the fe_sessions table. There you can also find user id. This is how I do it from my non_TYPO3 application, which needs single sign-on with TYPO3.

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