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Get current user credentials. No the ticket

isloat — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:15:22 GMT

Hi,I have a web application that is executed on clicking a new option that I have added to the documents of the "Document Library". Clicking it, is executed a js that redirects to my application.Is any way to extract the user credentials to authenticate against my application? Because I don't want t

Re: Get current user credentials. No the ticket

mrogers — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:39:24 GMT

No you can't retrieve the password. And it would be a serious bug if you could.

What you probably want to do is to have some sort of SSO solution so that both Alfresco and your web app trust your authentication system token.

Re: Get current user credentials. No the ticket

isloat — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:12:41 GMT

Exactly!
Maybe if I use some external authentication subsystem, does solves the problem? (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems#External)
But I don't want to change how I'm authenticating in Alfresco, I want to use Alfresco's credentials in other system. Because as I understand, authentication subsystems are made to change the way you authenticate against Alfresco, aren't they?

Thanks for your quick reply!