Plug-in to Drupal
How difficult would it be to integrate Maintain and Drupal (perhaps by making Maintain a module of Drupal)?
If the integration is tight, it could make a network administrator's job very easy. I'm thinking especially about setting up integrated user authentication. Thus, when a user is added to Maintain, a check-box would turn on email and access to Drupal. Also, when the user's password was changed, it would be changed for all purposes.
Loye Young
Laredo, Texas
Not a module...
You couldn't make maintain a module for drupal (or at least it would be very unreasonable to do so) but it is possible with Maintain's module engine to integrate Drupal and Maintain authentication. For example, someone could write an auth module called auth_drupal. It also may be possible to use LDAP as an authentication system for both.
Drupal integration would be
Drupal integration would be fairly difficult, further I believe it would also be undesirable. That would tie Maintain into one type of solution, one that requires Drupal. Maintain is designed to be a standalone web application. All that would be accomplished by tying Maintain to Drupal would be a reduction in flexibility as well as entering any security breach found in Drupal into Maintain.
That being said, the project is open sourced. If a person wished to tie it to Drupal that is completely within their power. Though it sounds like an interesting project, that is not the direction the current Maintain team is moving.
It is possible to write authentication modules for Maintain, there is an extensive module engine. It is within the power of a module writer to make a module that would in fact log you into both places at once. Drupal also has support for such modules, so this could be implemented in either location.
Michael Clay
Maintain Developer
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