[Koha] CAS Login

Nicole Engard nengard at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 09:11:01 NZDT 2009


Thanks for the clarification!

Nicole

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM, LAURENT Henri-Damien
<henridamien.laurent at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> It has been added by one of our folk in order to comply with a feature
> request.
> I agree it should not be enabled by default.
> And Authen::CAS::Client should not even be a required module, but an
> optional one.
> But
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:rfc32_cas_compatibility
> CAS authentication was planned for 3.2.
> So there it comes.
> I asked Matthias to send a patch to disable CAS authentication by
> default. Should not be too hard to write.
> --
> Henri-Damien LAURENT
>
> Colin Campbell wrote:
>> On 07/12/09 15:50, Nicole Engard wrote:
>>
>>> Owen found more about this - and so I thought I should share with you all:
>>>
>>> [10:41]<owen>  Weird logout error in the latest OPAC
>>> [10:41]<owen>  it's trying to redirect me to another port
>>> [10:43]<owen>  Oh, because there's a URL listed in the casServerUrl system pref
>>> [10:44]<owen>  That doesn't seem like something that should be filled
>>> by default
>>> [10:47]<nengard>  owen - i reported a bug for that
>>> [10:47]<nengard>  the log out thing
>>> [10:47]<owen>  Yeah, just modified it
>>> [10:47]<nengard>  oh okay - was just gonna give you the link :)
>>> [10:47]<owen>  The CAS authentication stuff needs to be turned off,
>>> then logging in and out works.
>>> [10:48]<nengard>  do you know what CAS is?
>>> [10:48]<owen>  I don't. http://www.jasig.org/cas maybe?
>>> [10:50]<nengard>  hmmm - we need to explain that further - and you're
>>> right they shouldn't be on by default
>>>
>>> Also more here: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3836
>>>
>>> Nicole
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nicole Engard<nengard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me what the CAS login is in the newest release of
>>>> HEAD?  I see it listed on the OPAC login page now - but with no
>>>> explanation of what CAS is...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Nicole
>>>>
>>>>
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>> There was an added dependency - Authen::CAS::Client - its perldoc refers to
>>
>>> http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/
>>>
>>
>> for more info.
>>
>> Ok that's the what anyone got the why?
>> C.
>>
>>
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