Integrating university single login with CMS login

[paulk7737514]

I am bidding on a study abroad website which will use an open-source CMS with some very powerful extensions to enable a full-fledged social networking site wallowing students to register an account (using an email link sent to them), log in and create user profile, upload photos, video, etc., email or private message other students, etc.

The university of course wants to protect student private data, so they are asking about integrating this with their single login. However, I am at a loss to know how to code this, let alone figure out how the CMS login system with its email notifications could even function properly under such conditions. I was more under the impression that the website would be on its own LAMP server and that the university tech guy would install some sort of Web Application Firewall to protect student private data.

[Rob Hecker2 · Accepted solution]

Since you indicate that the school already has a user log-in system, you need to either replace the CMS log-in with it, or re-code the CMS log-in to integrate with the existing database of users.

. . .the university tech guy would install some sort of Web Application Firewall to protect student private data.

Actually, protecting the data is more the job of the web developer. A firewall has little to do with it.

[paulk7737514]

It looks now as if they will relent and give me control over the login.