CredentialsBinder is only necessary when you need to transfer information from the HttpServletRequest to the Credentials object when standard Spring Binding mechanisms cannot be used (i.e. parameter->property mapping).
The CredentialsToPrincipalResolver is used to turn a credential into a principal after its been authenticated. Cheers, Scott On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Jean-Noel Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I need to build a custom authenticator; I found back some code I wrote 2 > years ago on an older version of CAS and I'm trying to figure out how > everything was working; in particular, I'd like to understand the role of > CredentialsBinder and CredentialsToPrincipalResolver. I couldn't not find > information on the overall authentication process down to that level of > details. > > Also, I think i remember there was a way for the CAS server to return more > information to the CAS client than just the username (I even think it's the > reason why I wrote the above classes), but can't find information on this > subject neither. > > Would anyone be able to refresh my understanding or point me to appropriate > source of information? > > Best regards > > Jean-Noel Colin > -- > 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
