Group based authentication

[Zeeple]

Hi folks,

My organization has an apps account and we all have email addresses
associated with that apps account. Furthermore, we make good use of
groups in the sense of groups-of-users. What I would like is to be
able to set permission levels within my app based on what groups the
users belong to. This way, if one user is added to the developer
group, for example, instead of having to go into the app code and
alter a function, I can simply add that person to the appropriate
group within google apps admin interface. Am I making sense?

Any advice from someone who has already done this would be coolerific.
Thanks!

[Brandon Wirtz]

I think you are talking about Google APPs not Google APP Engine. It is
confusing, but I think you are talking about Deploying "APPS" not writing
code in App Engine. Correct?

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[Zeeple]

Yes and no :). I am building a suite of tools for use by my
organization and these tools will be an app engine application built
with python, django, etc. As it happens, my organization has a
"google apps" account that we use for email, docs, sites, etc. So, I
am talking about both. The majority of my orgs members should have
very limited permissions in the tools, but a select few should have
more authority and privilege in the app engine based tool suite I am
building. The trick is that the membership of that select group is
likely to change over time. In the google apps admin one can create
users and build groups of users for ease of communication. Is the app
engine UserService able to know what groups my users belong to within
our google apps account? If not, how would I accomplish ensuring that
groups (not individuals) have the correct permissions within my app?

[Peter Herrmann]

You'd need to do this yourself by using the Google Apps Provisioning API which has functions for retrieving the list of members of a group. 

[Muneer Malik]

I have used spring security with the google app engine.

You can set permissions at group level and configure spring security using xml.

relavant blog:

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/08/02/spring-security-in-google-app-engine/

Best,

Muneer Malik

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