GMail Authentication Plugin for PAS

Category: Auth and User Management, Code examples — Other products by this author

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Current release: GMail Authentication Plugin for PAS 0.1

Released Oct 27, 2005 — tested with Plone 2.1

This is the initial release of GMailAuthPlugin. It is ready for deployment, though some people may want additional features.

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The Pluggable Authentication Service is a new authentication service for Zope, and the future of authentication for Plone. You can use it today with PlonePAS.

This Product defines an Authentication plugin for PAS that uses GMail for authentication. When you install the GMailAuthPlugin, users can log in using their GMail username and password.

Please note that, while it works, this plugin is not ready for serious use without some optimizations.

GMailAuthPlugin is as much a demonstration and template for future plugins as it is a useful plugin. If you intend to write an Auth plugin for PAS, the actual code that does GMail authentication is impossibly simple, and can easily be replaced with your custom method. Do that, change the names, and you've got an Authentication plugin. Writing other plugins is as simple as implementing different interfaces.