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We are considering purchasing Google's mini search appliance. We need Googles advanced search features and it appears to be the only way we can index our password protected content.

I have been informed by a Google rep that the search appliance will crawl sites protected by HTTP Basic Authentication and Microsoft NTLM Authentication, but not Forms-based Single Sign-On sites.

My question is this: What kind of authentication method does Drupal use?

Thanks

Rick

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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stevenpatz’s picture

stevenpatz
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commented

it would be equivalent forms-based.

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dldege commented

Drupal auth is very extensible and can work with just about any type of authentication scheme.

Check out http://drupal.org/project/httpauth for basic (and digest mode?) auth support. There are LDAP modules and others as well. You could also write your own by handling the auth hooks in a custom module.

dLd

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themoors commented

Thanks for the replies!

The http authentication module looks promising, looks like I am finally going to have to update to 4.7 though.

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ice241985 commented

I try to load my home website page and this authentication message above pops up and will not let me load the updates I made nor the css. None of the passwords and username combinations allow me to get around this either. Is there a permissions thing I accidentally turned on that I can shut off on my admin page?

This is what the error says: Authentication Required, A username and password are being requested by http://musiciansuniteforfree.com The site says: "User Backups" and then it has a field to enter a username and passwords.

Could anyone help me with my problem?