[Cdash] External Authentication

[Julien Jomier]

Martin,

We are glad you like CDash and are contributing to it!

Thanks a lot for providing the fix. It has been added to the main trunk 
as well as the 1.0 branch. A bug has been filled (#6989) as well.

Thanks again,
Julien

Martin Scholl wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> 
> as this is my first posting I want to use this chance to say "hello" and
> to say "thank you!" to everybody hacking cdash. We were using dart2
> before migrating to cdash and yet we really enjoy having cdash for its
> higher speed and for being less resource hungry.
> 
> 
> Attached you can find a small patch to add http-based /
> webserver-implemented user-authentication to cdash.
> The patch is against login.php of cdash version 1.0.
> 
> Assumed an account with the same login name exists already at cdash you
> only have to authenticate once via http protocol. CDash will try re-use
> the authenticated user's login and adds a proper authentication session
> record.
> For this to control a new configuration variable named
> 'CDASH_EXTERNAL_AUTH' is introduced. This variable controls must
> evaluated true to active external authentication via http protocol.
> 
> 
> We use this in production since cdash 0.8 to authenticate our users
> against kerberos via apache2. It also seems to work with version 1.0 of
> CDash.
> 
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Martin
> 
> 
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