If you merely have applications that exist on multiple domains, then CAS 3 will suffice. If you need to authenticate multiple sets of users who's authoritative source are different companies/institutions/etc. then you should look at at something that does federation such as Shibboleth or Ping (CAS4 will do it when it comes out also).
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Thung, Peter C CIV SPAWAR SSC PAC, 56340 < [email protected]> wrote: > Cas- User group, > > I forget to paste in the FAQ: > http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/server/faq.html#9 > > > Also does it count as cross domain and federated if we can control or > syncronize the authentication tables between the two domains, so it is not > really federated, > but the domain names on where the resources are located are different? e.g. > > app1.com and app2.net > > > I'm thinking if we can somehow syncronize the authentication repository > that a CAS server on the east coast is using with a CAS server on the west > coast > is using, it might work, but not sure. > > -Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Thung, Peter C CIV SPAWAR SSC PAC, 56340 [mailto: > [email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2009 12:13 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [cas-user] CAs and Single Institution versues cross domain > institutions... > > I just wanted to confirm with the group: > based on this FAQ, that > CAS is a Single Institution SSO solution. > > So if we have web applications running in multiple domains federated across > a WAN, > that CAS will not work for us and we will need something like Shibboleth. > > -Peter > > > > ****************************************************************** > > Peter Thung > > SPAWAR Systems Center PACIFIC (Code 56340) > > Netcentric ISR Development > > Software Developer > > Primary: (619) 553-6513 > > Secondary:(619) 553-0777 > > ****************************************************************** > > > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
