[OSM-dev] User authentication/Single sign on

[Stefan de Konink]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> What we need is a central system against which untrusted services can 
> authenticate someone. I am not sure if LDAP delivers that.

I wanted to implement this just as a http_auth request to the server. If 
the http auth request fails it would tell me that the user/pass is 
false. Is this method a priori bad?

(Except I would advocate htdigest strongly...)

Stefan