Am 24.06.14 19:05, schrieb George Brink:
> Michael,
>
> Well...
> I was hoping that CAS itself can be used as a 'session state' system.

CAS does maintain a session with the browser, but your webapp won't be
able to access that for general security reasons
> If it is not the case and we cannot "validate the ticket" several times
> during the actual user session,

you can actually, but it is not encouraged for security reasons, but see

cas-server-webapp-3.5.2/WEB-INF/spring-configuration/ticketExpirationPolicies.xml

and set c:numberOfUses="1000000" instead 1


>  then I guess the traditional approaches
> would be the answer.
>
> So the CAS is just an id/password checker?

I would not say that, but yes one can use it for that purpose :-)

Thanks

Michael
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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Michael Wechner <[email protected]
>> wrote:
>> Am 24.06.14 17:36, schrieb George Brink:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Right now I am making a web site which would use CAS to recognize
>> users.The
>>> site is based on a set of Perl scripts.
>>> I am looking for a comprehensive tutorial on how I am supposed to use
>> CAS.
>>> I see a lot of documentation (and it is discussed here a lot) on how to
>>> create a CAS server in Java, but I need to _use_ CAS...
>>>
>>> So far I found AuthCAS module on CPAN, but I am not sure how to use it.
>> All
>>> examples ends on initial authentication, but what to do next? How can I
>>> make sure that the user who is looking on other pages of my site did pass
>>> the CAS authentication on the "welcome" page of the web site?
>>> Ideally, I would like to have some "validateUser" function on each every
>>> page of my site, but as far as I understand, CAS do not have such
>> ability?
>>> Once 'ticket' is validated it is not usable anymore?
>> when your webapp has validated the ticket, then your webapp can consider
>> the user as authenticated
>> and hence your webapp could set a session state accordingly, but I don't
>> know how you do something like
>> this with a perl script based web site. Maybe the following helps
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/CGI-Session-3.95/Session/Tutorial.pm
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Michael
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