Hi,

finally getting around doing this. I have a Drupal site with a CAS module 
installed. 

Anyone done this before?


Kenneth


Den lördag 15 januari 2011 kl. 17:49:46 UTC+2 skrev Massimo Di Pierro:
>
> It can. 
>
> http://web2py.com/cas 
>
> On Jan 15, 9:13 am, David Bain <pigeonfli...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > I believe web2py can act as a CAS authentication server. If you CMS does 
> CAS 
> > then you're good. Maybe an easier place to start is to figure what CMSes 
> out 
> > there can authenticate against CAS. 
> > 
> > 2011/1/15 Kenneth Lundström <kenneth.t.lundst...@gmail.com> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I was thinking about using web2py as the authentication platform as it 
> > > holds the members database. Or then a LDAP that gets it information 
> from 
> > > members database. 
> > 
> > > The intranet will hold a lot of information that should be visible on 
> the 
> > > website via the CMS. Either lots of small info (names, telephone 
> numbers) or 
> > > maybe whole pages. Could iframe be a way of displaying data from web2y 
> on a 
> > > webpage? 
> > 
> > > Kenneth 
> > 
> > >  This kind of information is often stored in a corporate directory 
> using 
> > >> something called LDAP. I am not sure of the size of your company but 
> it 
> > >> sounds like it is large enough to consider this solution. There is 
> OpenLDAP 
> > >> on Linux or Active Directory on Microsoft which perform this task as 
> > >> concrete examples of product. The web2py server has a contrib module 
> for 
> > >> using LDAP authentication which is documented in the manual. Check if 
> your 
> > >> CMS is capable of this as well. 
> > 
> > >> The web2py server has a very diverse set of authentication mechanisms 
> such 
> > >> as SMTP server login etc. This would get you username and password in 
> one 
> > >> location but not a hierarchy or org chart. 
> > 
> > >> Since the choice of CMS is unknown at this point it is difficult to 
> tell 
> > >> if it is open enough to be able to refer to tables in the web2py 
> portion of 
> > >> the infrastructure. 
> > 
> > >> A couple of ideas, 
> > >> Ron

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