Confusion using password/Liferay, cas, login

[Anna Pakkala]

On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Perry Minchew wrote:

> So far I have liferay portal successfully logging in using cas. In  
> liferay, we search for a user by their email address and company id  
> for the portal. That returns a “User” object which has  
> user.getUsername() and user.getPassword(). We then submit that  
> username and userPassword back to a login method to start the users  
> session. Easy enough.

Sorry for hijacking your thread and bringing it back to life at this  
time..

I just installed Liferay, and wanted it to use CAS for  
authentication. The problem I have (following the detailed  
instructions at the LIferay site) I kept getting the  
"com.liferay.portal.NoSuchUserException: No User exists with the  
primary key xxxx" after succesfull cas-login

Which means of course that Liferay can't find the user in it's own  
database and so denies access, which kind of sucks since the whole  
purpose of single sign-on is to get rid of multiple user- 
databases...right? :)

So could you (or anyone else who has set this up successfully) step  
through how you configured Liferay to accept the CAS credentials as- 
is. After that, the user info should be taken from ldap, and  
preferably not inserted into liferays own database at all.
I've only been playing with Liferay since yesterday, but I figured  
that someone has probably done this before.

Using liferay 4.2.1, casclient 2.11 and CAS-server 3.0.5

-- 
Anna Pakkala
Vanhempi suunnittelija
Turun yliopiston ATK-keskus




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