Whitebeam Library Definition

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Whitebeam Library Definition

Tag Description

<rbm:extlogin>

Login using the cookie-based authentication module

See Also

extlogin()   

Syntax

<rbm:extlogin user=string password=string expiry=number community=string authok=string>body</rbm:extlogin>

Attributes

The 'rbm:extlogin' tag has 5 attributes:

Name Type/Value Range/Length Description
userstring2 to 31 characters Required. Identify the username to log-in as. This is overidden if a form value with a name of "sessionUser" is found.
passwordstring3 to 64 characters Required. Identify the password to log-in as. This is overidden if a form value with a name of "sessionPass" is found.
expirynumber  Optional. Identify the default timeout for this login. This is overidden if a form value with a name of "sessionExp" is found. Expiry of the Whitebeam session will also cause a logout.
communitystring2 to 31 characters Required. Identify the group of people against which the username and password will be validated. This may select one or more Communities, individuals or OUs (Organisational Units). To specify more than one, provide a comma separated list with no white-space. This is overidden if a form value with a name of "sessionComm" is found.
authokstring1+ characters Optional. The page to display if the user succesfully logs in. This takes the form of a filename within the current website. If not specified, some generic text is output in place of the login form. The special value of "ignore" causes no action or redirection in the case of a successful login.

Body

The rbm:extlogin body contains a form to prompt for login parameters.

Remarks

Unless "user" and "password" values are provided, the rbm:extlogin tag must encapsulate a form to collect the values for the login

Form input fields required are: sessionUser, sessionPass, sessionExp and sessionComm.

sessionUser :Provides the username to log-in as.
sessionPass :Provides the password for the above user.
sessionComm :Optional. Allows the form to override the community set in the rbm:extlogin tag.
sessionExp :Optional. Sets the timeout for this login session. This is overridden by any Whitebeam session timeout.

Whitebeam release 1.3.36
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