On 17 Oct 2007, at 00:48, Derek Richardson wrote:
Matthew Wilkes wrote:
On 16 Oct 2007, at 23:23, Derek Richardson wrote:
Hey. I'm writing a package to provide a Plone 3.0-compatible UI
for PAS4CAS - a replacement for PloneCASLogin, which has not been
updated. The basics work. I now want to hide the login portlet,
since it is non-functional and confusing with CAS.
Hi Derek,
From my own dealings with CAS, the login form is certainly not
non-functional, it's only non-functional if CAS is the sole means
of authentication.
Hmmm. Under what conditions would you have two means (CAS + other)
of authentication? If there is a use case there, I need to think
about it. But it seems very strange to me. ;)
My students' union. The following is at various levels of
implementation:
There are the following types of users:
1) Current students (CAS)
2) Staff (CAS)
3) Ex-students (maybe LDAP, maybe a different CAS server, maybe
something else)
4) Honorary Members (Membrane)
5) Associate members (Custom PAS or heavy-lifting with Membrane)
6) Affiliate members (IP matching/membrane)
The basic reasoning being there is a CAS server for current members
of the university, an LDAP directory of ex members and local storage
of the small number of people who are members of the union and not
the university.
I recommend creating your own CAS login portlet with a link to
your CAS provider and letting the user hide or show the standard
login portlet as needed.
Ah, that's what old PloneCASLogin did that I never understood. I
mean, if the 'login' link is on the personal bar always and does
just as good as a big 'CAS' button, then why spend the screen real
estate? But, again, if there's a legit use case here, I should
consider it.
The login link can be overridden by customisers, it's not the place
of your plugin to say what the main method of authentication is.
I don't think we're going to use either of these (two auth mechs or
big CAS button) at Georgia Tech, but, if I'm going to do battle
with our legal dept to release this publicly (and I plan to), then
I want to do it right to make the effort worthwhile.
I recommend talking to Pete Walker at the University of Bristol, as I
know they're looking to do some work with Plone 3 and we use CAS
extensively. I've CCed him in.
BTW, Matt, is was *great* sprinting with you this weekend. I really
appreciate your contributions to Vice.
I'm glad to be of help, sorry about the disappearing act yesterday,
was in a political party headquarters just as the leader stepped
down, had to give up my ethernet port pretty sharpish. You'll be
happy to know I have a working portal_syndication, I'm working on
updating the GUI.
Matt
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