On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:34:09AM -0700, Dominic Cleal wrote:
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> I don't see the need for the AuthSourceExternal name to be configurable, as we're not allowing the user to manage these objects.  I'm wondering instead if it should be fixed via a class method on AuthSourceExternal in the same way as User.admin.
> 

You can have multiple different AuthSourceExternal sources. In the
future, the name of the source can well come from the Apache
environment (from the mod_auth_* or mod_lookup_identity modules) and
it may specify the domain or realm from which this user came.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Identity Management Engineering, Red Hat