The login channel actually just checks a property in security.properties -
there's nothing that's really limited to the channel itself. If that value
is missing, the channel assumes CAS isn't configured and that it should
display the local login form.
In an effort to maintain backwards compatibility, I merely copied this logic
into a Xalan helper bean. I agree with you that the overall style of
authentication configuration could use some updates, and it might even make
sense to make that URL a more general "external authentication" URL, since
you might plausibly use Shibboleth or some other non-CAS SSO solution.
If you do decide to configure CAS via JNDI, you should be able to inject
configuration into the Xalan helper bean via the Spring configuration files.
- Jen
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Susan Bramhall <susan.bramh...@yale.edu>wrote:
> ? It's the login channel that uses the security properties to get the
> url. So how does universality get the url?
> -Susan
>
>
> Jen Bourey wrote:
>
> The changes I've proposed don't impact the CAS configuration or anything
> else in security.properties.
>
> - Jen
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Susan Bramhall <susan.bramh...@yale.edu>wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a good idea. Where would the CAS login url be configured?
>> We have been planning to externalize that to jndi so the war / ear is more
>> portable between systems.
>> Susan
>>
>> Jen Bourey wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to propose changing the division of labor between the CLogin
>> channel and the theme XSL. Historically the CLogin channel has been
>> responsible for outputting the portal welcome message ("Welcome
>> <yournamegoeshere>"), the CAS login link or local login form, and the logout
>> link. When Gary first updated our XSL files for uPortal 3.0, he'd designed
>> many of those components as XSL templates, but we didn't actually use them,
>> since the theme didn't know the name of the user or CAS login URL.
>>
>> In the current trunk, the theme does have access to the user's display
>> name, and it isn't difficult to add a Xalan helper bean that can determine
>> if CAS login is enabled and print the login URL. I'd like to take advantage
>> of those two facts to begin outputting the login and logout URLs, as well as
>> the welcome message from the XSL templates directly. After that
>> refactoring, CLogin would only be responsible for printing out the login
>> form for local login and any login-related authentication errors.
>>
>> I think this change would help make per-theme styling of the welcome
>> message and authentication links much simpler, as well as get us closer to
>> the original design goals of the 3.0 refactoring. Does anyone have concerns
>> about such a change?
>>
>> - Jen
>>
>>
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