[TYPO3-english] FE authentication in TYPO3 4.x

[Nino]

"Xavier Perseguers" <typo3 at perseguers.ch> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1286115277.16930.typo3-english at lists.typo3.org...
> Hi,
>
>>> You mean one is active for all sites (based on service priority)? How 
>>> can
>>> they all be active? When u submit login info u can't tell TYPO3 what
>>> auth.
>>> service to use (or u can?).
>>
>> Please read the documentation!
>> There can be 3 results, returned by an auth service:
>> 200 = accepted
>> 100 = no decicion
>> 0 = denied
>>
>> So if an auth service returns code 100, because no user data is found,
>> other services jump in.
>
> Exactly. The basic idea behind this is to be able to have multiple 
> services to authenticate against and have priority on them to use them "in 
> chain". Then the first one that can authenticate the user "wins" and other 
> services are not called.
>
> If you want to activate different services according to different subsites 
> you have, you'll have to _change_ the authentication services to take this 
> extra parameter into account. I don't say it will be really tricky but 
> that's not something that is possible out of the box and you'll probably 
> have to manage your modification and make sure they are not overwritten 
> whenever you update the underlying authentication service (LDAP, ...).

Thank you both. Didn't know that this "jump" occurs if code 100 is returned. 
I think i can use that.

Regards.