Dear list, We have dozen of applications, mostly written in PHP and Python. They're distributed on different servers, but i'm trying to integrate them somehow. Each application has its own users. Is there a way to store all username/passwords into a single datasource and give each user, her proper permissions? Since i'm just a php-programmer, i *thought* of a MySQL database to hold these data, and then use a SOAP-Server to handle the authentication across those applications. Once a user provides her username/password, a SOAP Request will be made to a PHP-Driven Authentication Server, which handles the job to check the permissions and user's identity. It sounds slow, isn't it? Is there a better solution? How do you make authentication across a network of applications? -- Kind regards, -behzad
