[Typo3-dev] How to authenticate BE users?

[Peter Russ]

Ingo Renner wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I still haven't solved my problem with BE user authentication. After
> reading a lot of documentation and source code I have a question: Would
> make sense to build a service which authenticates BE users by username and
> password?
> 
> So this service could be used in other extensions.
> 
> I haven't started with the service yet but I had another approach/idea how
> to authenticate a BE user:
> 
> -----
> $auth = t3lib_div::makeInstance('t3lib_beUserAuth');
> $auth->formfield_status = 'login';
> $auth->formfield_uname  = $username;
> $auth->formfield_uident = md5($password);
> $auth->security_level   = 'normal';
> -----
> 
> Now which method do I have to call to know whether the login is ok or not?
> 
> 
> Any help with that is very appreciated as it is one of the last major
> things keeping me from releasing the EXT:timtab!
> 
> thanks in advance
> Ingo
> 

Does that help?
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=840

Regs. Peter.