[annotator-dev] Authenticating a user

Tue Aug 16 13:36:55 UTC 2011

On 16 August 2011 10:51, Ewald Zietsman <ewald at siyavula.com> wrote:

> Hi,

Before going into the details I wanted to check you've read this page:

<https://github.com/okfn/annotator/wiki/Authentication>

> I want to allow users to log into the annotator-store before they start
> annotating my page. I've added the Auth plugin, but I don't know what to
> make the Auth URL. I'd like to set the Username and account ID in the
> annotation since I'll need to access the information for another purpose.
>

You'll always need to set the account ID and the username should be set as
part of the auth plugin (see config on Open Shakespeare).

> I have a local store running at localhost:5000 and I've made a user account
> on that. It provided me with user account info but I need to include that
> into my annotations automatically. Any help on how to do this would be much
> appreciated.
>

See that wiki page for an explanation. The Auth plugin should be doing this
automatically if configured correctly.

Rufus

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