OK, this modification is now available in the trunk as revision 46108.  To
use it, you'll need to uncomment and change the password in
securityContext.xml.

- Jen


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Anthony Colebourne <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> +1 support for this.
>
> While at the conference in Dallas, I discussed with many people about the
> CAS ClearPass code. I spoke mainly about the longevity of this codebase,
> many people were in support of getting this code to a level where it would
> be maintained across such changes.
>
> Would such a change impact on this code? A feature where password were
> encrypted at the CAS end before being transfered into the portal session as
> pre-encrypted could benefit this code.
>
> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/Proxying+clear-text+credentials
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony.
>
> Jen Bourey wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to propose contributing some uPortal enhancements on behalf of
>> the University of Chicago.  The enhancements improve the existing
>> CachePasswordSecurityContext to encrypt the password with a
>> Spring-configurable encryption service before storing it in the session.
>>  We've also updated the CachedPasswordUserInfoService to configurably either
>> decrypt the cached password before adding it to a portlet's UserInfoMap, or
>> to pass it through in its encrypted form.  These changes are intended to
>> preserve the ability of uPortal to potentially cache user passwords, while
>> ensuring that any passwords present in the user session are encrypted.
>>
>> Is this a change that we could contribute to the uPortal 3.2-oriented
>> trunk?
>>
>> - Jen
>>
>>
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