[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12547] New: Create better API for handling external authentication

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12547

            Bug ID: 12547
           Summary: Create better API for handling external authentication
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Authentication
          Assignee: gmcharlt at gmail.com
          Reporter: dcook at prosentient.com.au
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: dpavlin at rot13.org

At the moment, authentication is really handled all that consistently.

There is Auth_with_cas.pm, Auth_with_ldap.pm, and perhaps one day
Auth_with_Shibboleth.pm.

There is also Persona which relies on a DOM API and Javascript on some OPAC
pages. 

All of these different methods also hook into Auth.pm.

They all work but it's not really that easy to see how they work nor is it
straightforward to add new forms of external authentication.

I don't have a plan of how to improve C4::Auth::checkauth() or C4::Auth, but I
think it's worth thinking about. 

Obviously, it would require a ton of testing, but perhaps we could have
incremental improvements.

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