CAS module
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Key: DOCU-216
URL: http://jira.magnolia-cms.com/browse/DOCU-216
Project: Documentation
Issue Type: Task
Security Level: Public
Components: content
Reporter: Antti Hietala
Assignee: Antti Hietala
Document Magnolia CAS module.
CAS (Central Authentication Service) is a single sign-on protocol. Its purpose
is to permit a user to access multiple applications while providing credentials
(such as user ID and password) only once. It eliminates future authentication
requests when the user switches applications during a particular session.
Unauthenticated users are diverted to the authentication service and returned
only after successful authentication.
Possible Magnolia use case: An editor is already authenticated against Active
Directory in his office environment. When the editor tries to access Magnolia,
Magnolia CAS module directs the request to a CAS server. CAS server recognizes
that the editor is already authenticated and immediately redirects him back to
Magnolia, logging the user in.
Magnolia uses the [Jasig CAS|http://www.jasig.org/cas] client library (earlier
Yale CAS).
Resources:
* Wikipedia: [Central Authentication Service
(CAS)|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Authentication_Service]
* [Jasig CAS|http://www.jasig.org/cas]
* [CAS module code in Magnolia
SVN|http://svn.magnolia-cms.com/svn/enterprise/magnolia-module-cas/]
(Enterprise edition)
* [CAS project in Jira|http://jira.magnolia-cms.com/browse/MGNLCAS]
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