Scott, Thanks for a super quick reply! :) I did take a look at it before. However I couldn't make much sense out of it. Probably because I don't know about Maven yet. Would you recommend me learning Maven then?
Any additional pointers to resources which tell me how to write my own custom authentication handlers and integrate them into CAS would be welcome. Thank you, Kristin, On 10/30/07, Scott Battaglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kristin, > > I'm off to a meeting so I hope to be able to respond more, but to give you > a head start, have you looked at: > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/JDBC > > We have pre-built JDBC authentication handlers for connecting to > databases. They accept custom Password Encoders (we have one implementation > that I don't have a link to right now). > > Take a look at them and see if they will help you. > > -Scott > > On 10/30/07, Kristin Coles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm new to CAS. I have been able to download/install and get CAS to > > work. Now I am ready for the next step. I have a Progress OpenEdge database > > with username and password fields in a user table. The password field stores > > the MD5 hash of the textual password. > > > > Firstly, I would like to write a custom Authentication Handler that > > would take the user credentials and compare it against the database. > > Secondly, how would I then integrate this custom Authentication Handler > > into CAS? > > > > I have read the documentation on > > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Home and http://www.ja-sig.org/but > > I am unable to figure out how to about accomplishing this. Probably > > there are multiple ways of getting this done. Can someone please point me in > > the right direction. > > > > Thanks much for your time. > > > > Regards, > > Kristin. > > > > PS: Here are a few things I've done successfully. > > > > I am using Tomcat 5.5.17 running on Apache Webserver 2.0.54. > > 1. I have downloaded cas-server-3.1 and cas-client-java-2.1.1. Copied > > the cas.war file to Tomcat/webapps and copied casclient.jar to > > Tomcat\webapps\jsp-examples\WEB-INF\lib. > > 2. Edited Tomcat\webapps\jsp-examples\WEB-INF\web.xml as follows > > <filter> > > <filter-name>CAS Filter</filter-name> > > <filter-class>edu.yale.its.tp.cas.client.filter.CASFilter > > </filter-class> > > <init-param> > > <param-name>edu.yale.its.tp.cas.client.filter.loginUrl</param-name> > > <param-value>https://kristin/cas/login</param-value> > > </init-param> > > <init-param> > > <param-name>edu.yale.its.tp.cas.client.filter.validateUrl</param-name> > > <param-value>https://kristin/cas/proxyValidate</param-value> > > </init-param> > > <init-param> > > <param-name> edu.yale.its.tp.cas.client.filter.serverName > > </param-name> > > <param-value>kristin</param-value> > > </init-param> > > </filter> > > > > <filter-mapping> > > <filter-name>CAS Filter</filter-name> > > <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> > > </filter-mapping> > > 3. Followed the instructions in > > http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/server/ssl/index.html > > to solve the SSL issues. > > 4. Created customized views using > > http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/server/views/index.html > > > > > > The result is, when I access any jsp page (in the jsp-examples > > directory) for the first time, I am being prompted for credentials. If I > > enter the same username and password, CAS rightly redirects me to the jsp > > page. In short CAS works for me! > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Yale CAS mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas > > > > > > > -- > -Scott Battaglia > > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbattaglia > _______________________________________________ > Yale CAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas > >
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