[Building Sakai] Portal login with webservices

[Carl Hall]

We have reinstated the web service and would like to contribute
documentation to support. Where should I put that?


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>
> Two ways forward with this:
>
> 1. you can reinstate the SakaiPortalLogin.jws
> 2. you can use getSessionForUser(String sessionid, String eid) if you have
> an admin session established, and it will return a session for the given
> user.
>
> If 2 doesn't do what you need, we can reinstate SakaiPortalLogin if it can
> get some documentation.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On 09/07/2011, at 5:27 AM, Carl Hall wrote:
>
> > Prior to 2.8, there was SakaiPortalLogin.jws which allowed a user to
> login with their user ID and a shared portal secret. This jws file has been
> archived now but I'm not seeing a clear path for continuing the previous
> action. In my case, there's an external application that is calling into
> Sakai for more information and is not privy to the user's password. Is there
> a suggested path to move from the shared portal secret used in
> SakaiPortalLogin.jws to SakaiLogin.jws?
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