Role <> username

[weierophinney]

In ZF\MvcAuth\Identity\AuthenticatedIdentity
getRoleId return name but in my case role of user is different of user name.

What's best approach?

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Originally posted by @fabioginzel at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49

[weierophinney]

I think it boils down to: The identity object provided by authentication should be configurable.

That doesn't address your problem directly, but might lead to a solution.

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Originally posted by @SvenRtbg at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49 (comment)

[weierophinney]

@fabioginzel

How do yo authenticate your users exactly (which adapter did you use)? Do you handle many roles? You could use a listener to override default role id. Right now, role id is set by authentication adapter during authentication process.

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Originally posted by @nuxwin at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49 (comment)

[weierophinney]

I write my adapter

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Originally posted by @fabioginzel at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49 (comment)

[weierophinney]

@fabioginzel

So, for instance, if you're using a doctrine object repository authentication adapter, you can set whatever name you want ($identity->setName('<your_role'>), using identity object that should holds your user role.

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Originally posted by @nuxwin at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49 (comment)

[weierophinney]

Ok, but I think this should be configurable

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Originally posted by @fabioginzel at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49 (comment)

[weierophinney]

@fabioginzel

Well the role is set by adapter through the setName() method. Default behavior doesn't involve extended ACL permissions system. and anyway, adapter are not aware of full identity object. For instance HTTP adapter only know about an username, a realm and credential.

To resume here, Implementation is up to you. You can always hook in the code and call setName() when needed to override default value set by adapters. Adapter are not aware of full user entity. For instance, http authentication adapter only know about a username, realm and credential. There is not way to get another thing than the username at this stage. For http adapter, another way would be to use your own resolver, which can return whatever you want.

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Originally posted by @nuxwin at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49 (comment)

[weierophinney]

https://github.com/API-Skeletons/zf-oauth2-doctrine hooks into your user entity and you can authenticate with User Credentials grant https://bshaffer.github.io/oauth2-server-php-docs/grant-types/user-credentials/

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Originally posted by @TomHAnderson at zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth#49 (comment)