I second what Andy says, and just want to add that service ticket validation is 
the necessary step in a secure CAS protocol, and the simple answer is - “no, 
you cannot skip the ST validation step”.

Best,
Dmitriy.

> On Jun 29, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Andrew Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Ajay Madhavan wrote:
> 
>> I want to skip service validation. I want to distribute the validation
>> among all my webapps where i can obtain the username from the service
>> ticket.
>> 
>> I still want to use CAS for service ticket generation.
> 
> If you don't validate the ST over a back-channel connection, then how do you 
> prevent someone from spoofing the username?  An attacker could put whatever 
> they want in the ST value to become any other user.
> 
> Validating the ST is a necessary step for security.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by "distribute the validation among all my 
> webapps".
> 
>       Andy
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