[cas-dev] Question on docs for Remember Me function

[Scott Battaglia]

That looks correct.  If you wouldn't mind, can you update our document to
reflect that?

Thanks
-Scott

-Scott Battaglia
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Eric Pierce <epierce at usf.edu> wrote:

> I followed the docs for setting up Remember Me
> (http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Remember+Me) and I found a
> problem, but I wanted to make sure I'm fixing it correctly before
> updating the wiki.  The wiki says to change
> authenticationViaFormAction in cas-servlet.xml to the following:
>
> <bean id="authenticationViaFormAction"
> class="org.jasig.cas.web.flow.AuthenticationViaFormAction"
>        p:centralAuthenticationService-ref="centralAuthenticationService"
>
>  p:formObjectClass="org.jasig.cas.authentication.principal.RememberMeUsernamePasswordCredentials"
>        p:formObjectName="credentials"
>        p:warnCookieGenerator-ref="warnCookieGenerator" />
>
> However, when I did that, the Long-Term ticket was created, but none
> of the values that I entered into the login form were validated.  I
> could type in my username and leave the password field blank and the
> authentication would succeed.  It seems that a credential validator
> needs to be configured to check for missing username/password.  Here's
> what I came up with:
>
> <bean id="UsernamePasswordCredentialsValidator"
> class="org.jasig.cas.validation.UsernamePasswordCredentialsValidator"
> />
> <bean id="authenticationViaFormAction"
> class="org.jasig.cas.web.flow.AuthenticationViaFormAction"
>        p:centralAuthenticationService-ref="centralAuthenticationService"
>
>  p:formObjectClass="org.jasig.cas.authentication.principal.RememberMeUsernamePasswordCredentials"
>        p:formObjectName="credentials"
>        p:validator-ref="UsernamePasswordCredentialsValidator"
>        p:warnCookieGenerator-ref="warnCookieGenerator" />
>
> This works, I just wanted to make sure I was fixing it the "right" way
> and wasn't causing some other problem.
>
> -Eric
>
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