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[http://www.pubcookie.org/ Pubcookie] is software that allows users at an institution (e.g. Redbrick) to sign-in once to a webpage, and then have "official" access to all other webpages at that institution! This means that you, as a Redbrick user, can login once with your Redbrick username/password, and then do funky stuff (like edit these Wiki webpages) that nobody else on the internet can do! [User:Colmmacc|] has setup a very basic pubcookie service on Redbrick. It's not pretty, no nice logos, and there are some broken image links, but well, it works - so it's a start, and others can make it look pretty :) | |||
[http://www.pubcookie.org/ Pubcookie] is software that allows users at an institution (e.g. Redbrick) to sign-in once to a webpage, and then have "official" access to all other webpages at that institution! This means that you, as a Redbrick user, can login once with your Redbrick username/password, and then do funky stuff (like edit these Wiki webpages) that nobody else on the internet can do! [ | |||
Anyway, go to: | Anyway, go to: | ||
https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/yoyo/ | |||
And you should be redirected to: | And you should be redirected to: | ||
https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/login/ | |||
which is the pubcookie "login portal", where your Redbrick username and password should work, and send you right back to: | which is the pubcookie "login portal", where your Redbrick username and password should work, and send you right back to: | ||
https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/yoyo/ | |||
... where you'll see a page congratulating you on it working, and a messy dump of lots of variables (that Redbrick has access to, i.e., your "environment"), just to prove that [ | ... where you'll see a page congratulating you on it working, and a messy dump of lots of variables (that Redbrick has access to, i.e., your "environment"), just to prove that [[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]] can't see your password :) | ||
To get more techie, the pubcookie auth module does some clever things like enforce https (i.e. secure web - | To get more techie, the pubcookie auth module does some clever things like enforce https (i.e. secure web - 'http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/yoyo/' should not work), it sets 'REMOTE_USER' to something useful (i.e. their redbrick username) and is generally cool. | ||
In order to use pubcookie authentication for parts of your own website, put the following in a .htaccess file for the directory you'd like to protect: | In order to use pubcookie authentication for parts of your own website, put the following in a .htaccess file for the directory you'd like to protect: | ||
PubcookieAppID ''some unique identifier for your area'' | |||
Authtype pubcookie | Authtype pubcookie | ||
require valid-user | require valid-user | ||
And only Redbrick users will be able to use it, and only using their normal Redbrick usernames and passwords. | And only Redbrick users will be able to use it, and only using their normal Redbrick usernames and passwords. | ||
Any files that gets referenced by the html directly eg: javascript , css should not be placed in a protected directory. | Any files that gets referenced by the html directly eg: javascript , css should not be placed in a protected directory. | ||
You can unprotect a subdirectory by placing the following in the .htaccess file for the subdirectory. | You can unprotect a subdirectory by placing the following in the .htaccess file for the subdirectory. | ||
satisfy any | |||
AuthType none | |||
order deny,allow | |||
allow from all | |||
[[Main_Page|Redbrick Wiki]], this wiki, uses this as its authenticator. | |||
[[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]] has a script that can [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~shimoda/proxy/prox.cgi access webpages from DCU] including sites that DCU has subscriptions to. | |||
[[User:Link|Link]] has a [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~link/news/ web newsreader] | |||