[Clipart] [Bug 4134] Clipart submission form improvement

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------- Additional Comments From bryce at bryceharrington.org  2005-08-21 11:03 -------
>> "Author" field -- is this stored in cookie data? If not, it could easily
>> be. It's the little things...
>
> Currently, we don't have any kind of login or session mechanism.  I 
> think that's probably waiting on the DMS for the time being. 

Fwiw, DMS won't include web login management, so you'll want to work out a
suitable approach.  The plan is for DMS to simply be able to "hook in" to some
other login management system; it would keep track of the User ID's (UIDs) for
submitters, commenters, administrators, etc. but would not actually handle any
of the login, account management, etc. etc.  Fortunately, there is a lot of
existing code out there to do this.

It's been my experience that login and account management can be kept isolated
from the main service/application without much trouble, so I tend to prefer
application designs that keep it abstract enough that (in theory) the
administrator could replace it with a different system if they desired.

Kees did a review of existing PHP login management systems a couple months back,
and didn't like what he saw so ended up writing his own - you might drop him an
email (kees at outflux dot net) to inquire about it.  I suspect it may need some
additional work to polish up the HTML, etc. but the underlying security
mechanisms are probably squared away pretty well.          
     
     
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