Daniel, I don't know of any pure C libraries for dealing with CAS tickets. You may be able to glean something from the CAS PAM module (anyone know, is that written in C?).
-Scott On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Daniel H. Peger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm investigating the effort needed to make a client-server-based system > aware of CAS. The client(s) are written in JAVA (run as applets) and the > server is written in C (communication is done via RMI). The given situation > closely resembles the one described in the "Handling non-web services" > section of the CAS architecture documentation as the client "normally" tries > to authenticate users against the server back-end system. Client and server > can be configured to use Kerberos for authentication thus the concept of > using tickets for authentication is known to the application. > > As far as I understood the documentation the client must obtain a service > ticket and "forward" this ticket to the back-end server for validation. Now > the server's authentication mechanism must be extended to validate the CAS > tickets against the respective CAS server. As the server is written in C > this immediately raises the question if there are already existing C > libraries providing CAS ticket validation functionality. > > Is my understanding of handling non-web services correct so far? And are > there existing C implementations that can be used to validate CAS tickets? > > Best regards, > Daniel. > -- > Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten > Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser > _______________________________________________ > Yale CAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas > -- -Scott Battaglia PGP Public Key Id: 0x383733AA LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbattaglia
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