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<div>Greetings,</div>
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<div>tcohen wrote in response to dcook’s request for feedback:</div>
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> - I had the feeling this should be done with plugins.</div>
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> Because every implementation has its details that make them less compatible with the other.</div>
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I concur with this idea.<br>
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Tangentially, it would also make refactoring authentication easier.</div>
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Right now, certain combinations of authentication work in a particular order, and there is no way to change that.</div>
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Plugins would let us access them in a particular order, and even configure them IN the staff client, not just</div>
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koha-conf.xml which gets filled pretty quickly with authentication cruft (ldap, shibboleth, cas, etc.)</div>
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GPML,</div>
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Mark Tompsett</div>
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