Is there some way that I can automatically login to Share as a guest without bringing up the default slingshot login page? I want to be able to go directly to a site-dashboard as a guest user by http://myip:8080/share/ or http://myip:8080/share/page/site/mysite/dashboard. Eventually I will want to implement an enterprise SSO but for now, I'd like to make sure that I can browse through the site without having to go through a login page.
Thanks to Ed (http://edlovesjava.blogspot.com/2008/10/examining-slingshot-configuration.html), I can follow the dashboard rendering process up to the redirect in site-index.jsp. In this file, I made userid="guest" and then specified <authentication>none</authentication> in site-index.xml and in presets.xml . But I still get re-directed to the login page.
During the rendering of the dashboard page, I see in the source (projects/web-framework/org/alfresco/web/site/servlet/DispatcherServlet.java) that the page gets redirected to the login page if page.getAuthentication() returns "user." But since I specified none in the authentication tags I don't know why I'm still getting redirected to the login page.
Any help on how to accomplish this would be most appreciated.
I am evaluating Alfresco Share for use as our home page/extranet/intranet solution. I too would like to bypass the guest authentication to provide a robust public area. Is this possible?
Or you can publish the content to an external system for public consumption. There are lots of examples using Drupal, Liferay, or just publishing to the file system:
