On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Andrew Petro wrote:
Defaults change. Choosing to use CAS gets easier. All the options
are still there.
I would expand on Andrew's (surprisingly brief ;) ) response to add:
The overall authentication & authorization architecture in uPortal is
unchanged, though there has and continues to be active engineering
work in re-factoring, unit testing, and modularization. All the
pluggable authentication channels, and integrations are still there,
though configuration files from previous versions of the portal may
need to be updated as the format of some options has changed.
In uPortal 2.6.x the default implementation of authentication that was
demonstrated was against a built-in database, with the portal
collecting the username/password.
In uPortal 3.0 the default implementation of authentication
demonstrates integration with a SSO system (JA-SIG CAS 3.2) which has
been pre-configured to point to the uPortal user database, so as to
deliver a similar experience. Given the growth in deployment of SSO/
RSO systems across campuses, this seems to be a more realistic
demonstration of a typical portal deployment scenario, as well as
showcasing the capabilities of CAS, another JA-SIG project which has
gained significant adoption across many deployments.
Jason
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