cosmocode/virtualgroup — Issue #8: Doesn't work where Wiki just uses "$auth->getUserData(...)"
Author: einhirn
Created: 2012-01-26 15:22:49+00:00
State: open

Hello,
I just found out that this plugin doesn't work well with email subscriptions. Subscription processing switches to the subscribed user via $auth->getUserData before doing an auth_quickaclcheck for the ID in question. Since this plugin doesn't hook $auth's methods but rewrites $USERINFO later on, users that only have access via virtualgroup won't ever get an email notifier.

It should probably be possible to create kind of a "passthrough" auth class that just queries the original ones (of course rewriting the list of groups returned) and put that into "$auth". That way, in my opinion, it should be possible to intercept calls to $auth->getUserData.

If there is a way to hook $auth even before the user is first authenticated and the session is built, we could even do without rewriting the group array later on.

bye
Christian