A couple of things:

First, you refer to "parts" of a web site.  In my experience, that can
mean different things in different situations -- you might just be
referring to different directories/folders and files, or you might
have different parts of sites controlled by different
frameworks/packages.  As they say, the devil's in the details, so
while Apache and mod_auth_cas (and other modules) provide lots of
flexibility and granularity in configuration, whether you can do
exactly what you need to do will depend on the details.

Second, you bring groups into the equation (rather than users), and
that makes things somewhat more complicated.  CAS/mod_auth_cas has
some capability of dealing directly with groups, but similarly, it
depends on the details -- e.g., what version of CAS you're using, what
LDAP server you have, how it's configured.  I have less experience
with this directly myself, but under certain circumstances, it should
be possible to get group information via CAS and to use directives
available in mod_auth_cas to control access using that group
information.  For instance, there was a thread recently, titled "CAS
4.0 w/ OpenLDAP won't return memberOf attribute", that dealt with
getting group info in CAS.

Additionally, you may be able to use some LDAP module
(mod_authnz_ldap?) on top of CAS to get group information and use it
for authorization.  That's not as convenient/seamless as using CAS
directly, but may be necessary.

Milt Epstein
Programmer in Computational Genomics
Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
[email protected]


On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Chris Cheltenham wrote:

> Thanks Milt,
> 
> In out web site all the folks are authenticated through LDAP.
> 
> Some folks need to see some parts of the web site but not all the parts.
> 
> Somehow I have to segregate what users can or cannot see.
> 
> I found one page online about using ldap groups and configuring  
> mod_auth_ldap or authz.
> That will then be configured in mod auth cas to point to ldap for group 
> access I gues???
> Not sure
> 
> Other than that I have found mothing.
> 
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Chris Cheltenham
> SwainTechs / HHS
> 
> Cell# 267-586-2369
> 
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> 
> What exactly are you trying to do, and what have you tried so far?
> 
> You should just be able to use appropriate "Require" directives, such as 
> "Require valid-user" or "Require user username" (where "username"
> is a valid username).
> 
> Milt Epstein
> Programmer in Computational Genomics
> Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [email protected]
> 
> 
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Chris Cheltenham wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello Everyone,
> > 
> > Does anyone who uses mod_auth_cas know how to configure mod_auth_cas to 
> > segregate specific users from getting to some pages but allow them to 
> > others?
> > 
> > So far, I ahev only figured out how to allow everyone who authenticates to 
> > get to the the page / dir called in the config file. Not just some people 
> > can see a page and some cannot.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank You,
> > 
> > Chris Cheltenham
> > SwainTechs / HHS
> > 
> > Cell# 267-586-2369
> > 
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