There is also a page that shows how values from a database can be
provided as attributes that allow the use of isUserInRole():
https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CASUM/HOWTO+utilize+javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest+isUserInRole%28+java.lang.String+role+%29



On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Marvin Addison
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does a similar capability exist with CAS, e.g. a way to map a list of
>> usernames as having authorization to access a given service url?
>
> Authorization does not exist in CAS per se, but you can deliver
> attributes to CAS services using the attribute release feature,
> https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CASUM/Attributes.  Then the CAS client
> consumes these attributes in some meaningful fashion, e.g. for
> authorization.  There's a patch to mod_auth_cas,
> https://issues.jasig.org/browse/MAS-60, to allow the attributes to be
> treated as authorization constraints very similar to what you've done
> with PubCookie.
>
> Take a look at the references I cited and let me know if you need further 
> help.
>
> M
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