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by Jeremy Stark — last modified Apr 07, 2011 07:56 AM

This tutorial will leave you with a working PlonePAS plugin that can authenticate using a repository of users external to Plone.

I am not going to go into the details of PlonePAS. For an overview of PlonePAS itself, check out:

The reference manual will provide a broader picture than this tutorial including configuration details. The other document provides a different perspective but does not cover authentication.

My company is developing a Plone website and wants visitors to be able to log into the site authenticating against an existing internal database of users residing in Oracle. We develop online games and have thousands of user accounts that we do not want to have to synchronize with our website. PlonePAS to the rescue.

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In this tutorial you will build a simple authentication plugin using PlonePAS. There are a couple documents that provide various details for writing PlonePAS plugins but nothing that covered all of the things I had to do in order to get something working. This tutorial will hopefully accomplish that.

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Use with: Plone 3, Plone 2.5.x
Relevant for: Developers

This document was contributed by Jeremy Stark, and last modified 309 days ago.

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