[opencms-dev] Single Signon and Opencms 6

[Jeremy Torres]

Arash Kaffamanesh wrote:

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>>Thanks, Arash.  Basically, from my understanding, CAS is a reqirement?
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>>Can you explain how a user's credentials are propogated to OpenCMS?
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>see http://www.yale.edu/tp/auth/usingcasatyale.html:
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>CAS is not a session-management mechanism; it provides no facility for
>helping you keep track of users once they're authenticated.
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>CAS is a single sign-on facility; once a user authenticates to CAS, the
>user need not continue to supply a password for other applications 
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><!-- my comment: e.g. for opencms users which have been authenticated
>through ldap and their sessions could be syncronized btw. Portal
>Applications, if they are not managed to run in the same context -->
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>>CAS is a reqirement?
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>No.
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>See also other sso solutions:
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>Java Open Single Sign-On Project
>http://www.josso.org/
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>http://www.pubcookie.org/
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>Or investigate to write your own custom authentication service :-)
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>Which portal framework do you prefer / have to work with?
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>Best regards,
>arash
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
>[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Torres
>Sent: Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2004 21:46
>To: The OpenCms mailing list
>Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Single Signon and Opencms 6
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>Arash Kaffamanesh wrote:
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>>Jeremy,
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>>If your portal is able to talk ldap and you have opencms6 and a 
>>SingleSignOn aware Framework, then you are on the sunsite :-) That can 
>>be done with uPortal http://www.ja-sig.org/ or Cocoon or others ...
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>>Visit this thread:
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>>http://www.pomegranate.de:90/cms/forum/viewthread?thread=1
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>>Best Regards,
>>Arash
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
>>[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Torres
>>Sent: Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2004 20:06
>>To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
>>Subject: [opencms-dev] Single Signon and Opencms 6
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>>Hello.
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>>I would like to be able to "pass" a user's credentials from a portal to
>>OpenCMS 6.  Is there any ideas on how this could be done?  For example,
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>>I would like a user logged into a portal the ability to use an "IFrame"
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>>portlet to access content in OpenCMS, however, I don't want the user to
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>>log in twice (once in the portal and again in OpenCMS).  Suggestions on
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>>an approache specific to OpenCMS would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Regards,
>>Jeremy
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>Thanks, Arash.  Basically, from my understanding, CAS is a reqirement?  
>Can you explain how a user's credentials are propogated to OpenCMS?
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Right now, I'm looking at Lifray as a portal framework.  I'm curious as 
to how OpenCMS 6 can be "configured" to use an external authentication 
mechanism.  I'm assuming there is some sort of "module"?  Thanks.