[cas-dev] Central Identity Service (CIS)

[Stephen More]

On 12/23/06, Velpi <velpi at industria.be> wrote:
> So there is some interest in this functionality and we have community
> knowledge for LDAP, AD and JDBC based implementations. At least two
> people here think it's a good idea to combine our efforts. Is the CAS
> project interested to adopt this?

I have not seen any comments on this....
( Hopefully it is because of extended year end vacations )
Is the CAS project interested to adopt this ?


> First thing we need to agree on: Should this be an advanced
> authenticationHandler (1) or should it be a separate action (2) that can
> be configured in the webflow (eg warnAction) or some other bright idea?

I was looking around but do not see where there is documentation for
the warnAction. Could someone point that out to me ?

> (1) it may be useful to have a new base class that extends the
> AbstractUsernamePasswordAuthenticationHandler. But then we would be
> missing out on the x509 and SPNEGO checks. We'll need to use Exception
> handling to present the user with different views.
> (2) we need a common base class(es) that uses pluggable implementations
>
> I vote for a new action because it is far more flexible. It can easily
> be used in combination with x509 or SPNEGO (I can provide some code for
> that).
> Thoughts?

Flexibility is always a good thing. A new action sounds fine to me.

-Steve More