CAS and SunGard's version of uPortal

[Dallas Wisehaupt]

Mark and Chris,

If you look at the "Detailed CAS overview" document on SunGard's support
site you will get a little more information. I don't think I'm giving
anything away by saying it's 1-J6B6A. :)

They talk about how CAS was implemented and why. The main suggestions
that are made are:
     1. Make your external CAS server a proxy to the Luminis CAS Server
     2. Have your external CAS use the Luminis LDAP as the authentication
        source

#1 essentially gives you cross domain SSO out of Luminis into the
resources protected by the external CAS. #2 doesn't, but it gives you a
common authoritative source.

We are using the CAS server within Luminis, and are considering an
external CAS server to take advantage of some of the new features.
However, that is all further down the road and I can't give you any
insight into the process.

Hope this helps. If you do get it working please share, we would love to
hear about it.

Dallas

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Chris Fontenot wrote:

> All the documentation that SunGard Higher Education has says that
> Luminis's implementation of CAS will not work with an external CAS
> server.  I think what you are trying to do will be the best bet but
> I'm unsure that it will work.  They have modified CAS and uPortal to
> fit into the security requirements felt necessary for the Luminis
> product which means that some of the config files are not necessarily
> in the same place that they would be in a stock implementation of
> those products. The way that Luminis performs logins and authenticates
> and such have all been modified from uPortal so this kind of a setting
> may not be available.
>
> FYI - I think Luminis 3.3.x is built on uPortal 2.3x mostly.
>
> I have yet to configure Luminis to work with CAS so I'm afraid I
> cannot immediately help you too much, however, this is one my goals to
> get more up to speed on very soon.
>
> On 10/2/07, Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not familiar with Luminis 3.3 specifically.  I just know that the
>> stock uPortal instance has property files allowing you to specify the
>> security methods.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>>
>>  On 10/2/07, Mark McCoy <mark.mccoy at utsa.edu> wrote:
>>> Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia at ...> writes:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark,There is no way to modify the uPortal security.properties to point
>> to the
>>> proper CAS server?-Scott
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Scott,
>>>
>>> Is that available in the uPortal that comes as part of Luminis 3.3?  We
>> can't
>>> seem to find this file or any documentation about it.

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Dallas Wisehaupt                            Senior Systems Administrator
dallas.wisehaupt at scranton.edu               The University of Scranton