Are you using the JASIG CAS Client for Java 3.1 also?

Can you post your configuration?

-Scott

-Scott Battaglia
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Adam Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have had the same issues when casifying Drupal. It's impossible to do
> it at will, but the user they log in as is usually the last user that
> had logged in.  I would love to get a final solution and the security
> implications are very high.
>
> Adam
>
> Jim Stoll wrote:
> > For those CAS-ifying Confluence via the JASIG CAS client for Java 3.1
> > (as per instructions here:
> >
> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/Configuring+Confluence+with+JASIG+CAS+Client+for+Java+3.1
> ),
> > has anyone ever experienced the situation where users get into
> > Confluence as the wrong user?
> >
> > The basic scenario is:
> > 1. User makes initial request to https://wiki.our.site/dashboard.action,
> > and is taken to our 'public' wiki page (ie, unauthenticated users can
> > see the initial dashboard page)
> > 2. User clicks the 'Log In' link from the Confluence dashboard page
> > 3. User is redirected to the CAS login page
> > 4. User enters their own username and password and logs in through CAS
> > 5. User is taken into Confluence as another user entirely (ie, the
> > Dashboard shows the wrong user name, and the user is in another user's
> > permission scheme - can see content they shouldn't see, and can't see
> > content they should see)
> >
> > I am currently unable to reproduce the problem at will, but we have had
> > two users experience this in the past week (that we're aware of, I
> > suspect there have probably been other occurrences we're not aware of,
> > though I have yet to find a way to identify this type of situation in
> > the logs). In the two cases I'm aware of, the 'wrong' user that the
> > person was authenticated into Confluence as, had never previously been
> > on the client machine that experienced the problem. (just FYI). We have
> > other applications that are CAS-ified (mixture of PHP and Java clients),
> > and we haven't yet seen this behavior on those.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help, insight or advice, as this is a pretty serious
> > situation for us.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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