[TYPO3] Installing a sysext

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> Another question: I made my own authentication extension to be able to 
> deal with an external database. Now after reading the code, what I fear 
> is true, my extension won't be able to provide openID as well. You did 
> what I wanted to do with this openid extension. Now, I know that this 
> extension is not yet released but it would be great to let other 
> authentication extensions "hook" as fallback authentication method if 
> OpenID is not used. This way one could let OpenID work and use its own 
> authentication method as well.

If I understood you right, there is no problem. Authentication services are called in chain. So if there is no OpenID supplied by user, the other service will be called to authenticate user. But if there is OpenID and it is wrong, authentication will fail, which is correct behaviour.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 Core team
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