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Bug 219790

Summary:	support key-based authentication scheme
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Dennis Rietmann <dennis.rietmann>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	steffen.pingel
Version:	2.2	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	208935

Description Dennis Rietmann

2008-02-21 09:47:24 EST

Hi,

I'm writing a mylyn connector for the Origo project (origo.ethz.ch). For external applications (like the mylyn connector) accessing the system we use a "key based" authentication. Meaning that the user simply needs to provide his user key instead of his username and password.
It is possible to retrieve the username from the user key, which would make it possible to use the existing username/password model and treat the user key as the "password". But since the customizability of the repository settings dialog is limited this approach results into something more of a hack than a proper solution (e.g. manually removing the user name field editor from the wizard page and from the layout, intercepting calls to getUserName() etc.).
Would it be possible to add support for this type of authentication or do you have any suggestions how to achieve this with the current model and code base? Thanks a lot.

Dennis

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2008-06-12 20:35:05 EDT

Need to defer: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn/3.0_Plan#Deferred_Items . We currently do not have a driver for this functionality within the Mylyn project but I would be happy to support this if an implementation was contributed.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

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