[LON-CAPA-dev] localauth

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Hon-Kie,

> I finally got all the pieces together for localauth for users to 
> authenticate against fsu accounts. However, when I put it in loncapa, the 
> module doesn't seems to get called. Questions:
> 
> 1. What does the argument after the local authentication refers to?

It can be whatever you want it to be.
Here is an example call:

use strict;
use ckid;
sub localauth {
  my ($uname,$upass,$args)= @_;
  my ($correct,$msg)=&ckid::unsecurecheckid($uname,$upass,1,0);
  #unsecurecheckid is backwards from us.
  if ($correct eq 0) { return 1; }
  return 0;
}


lond will call the localauth function with the username that was
entered, a cleartext copy of the password, and whatever appears after
the : in this particular students passwd file.

localauth needs to return either a 1 (correct password) or a 0
(incorrect password)

Notice the above example doesn't use the $args

> 2. What do I need to do to make sure that localauth.pm is installed?

It needs to exist in the /home/httpd/lib/perl/ directory.

remebe that lond is the one calling it, so you will need to restart
lond after making changes to localauth.pm.

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guy@albertelli.com  LON-CAPA Developer  0-7-6-9-