[Koha-devel] authentication

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

IANAP  (I am not a programmer :-), but I have quite a strong feeling that 
having only a cookies based authentication system could cause us 
problems.  There are issues because people turn them off (fair enuff I turn 
them off), and I have a hunch that some firewalls chuck them on the floor or 
something like that.

If we do decide to use cookies the system needs to work even if people don't 
have them enabled IMO. Our Government guidelines are quite anti cookies 
so I'd rather not if there is another way.

Anyway, just wanting to raise my 2c

Cheers
R

> I know there was comment of LDAP or some sort of not-at-all DB solution --
> this might become more important in terms of performance, I'd think, if
> there was a lot of checking of ID and characteristics.  (Esp. if we were to hang
> attributes/preferences on this).
> 
> Just raising for discussion...
> 
> Nick
> 
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