[AIRAVATA-573] Add support to connect different types of user stores to authenticate Airavata REST API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6
• Component/s: Security
• Labels: security, user
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Amila Jayasekara
• Created: 13/Sep/12 19:09
• Updated: 25/Jan/13 05:28
• Resolved: 29/Nov/12 18:55

Description

Currently we have authenticators directly connecting to Databases and authenticating users. But we should be able to authenticate users in heterogeneous user stores such as LDAP, external services, databases.

Add above capability to Airavata with the help of Apache Shiro [1].

[1] http://shiro.apache.org

Thanks
AmilaJ