Google

Authentication Users Password

Presentation

Google proposes to allow applications to reuse its own authentication process using OpenID protocol (it means, if your are connected to Google, other applications can trust Google and let you in).

Configuration

In Manager, go in General Parameters > Authentication modules and choose Google for authentication module. This will use email as login name (for accounting, session explorer,…). If you want to access to other datas, you have to use Google in General Parameters > Authentication modules > User module. Then in exported variables, you can ask only for :

Use the name you want but this values in the value field. If you want to require that a field is set, add ”!” before the key name :

See also exported variables configuration.

A specific persistent session is created with this module, to store attribute values returned by Google. If this session is lost, Google will ask a confirmation for each requested attribute.