CAS without CAS login page using restful api and modifiedlogin-webflow.xml

[Keith Garry Boyce]

1) Are there any specific examples you can point to with a real life cas iframe. I see discussion about it but no examples
2)  I also saw something about telling cas which login page to draw. It says wind goes this route but again no example.
3) I understand that the use case is not in fact overlooked but planned. But it would seem to me:
a) CAS and other SSO solutions do not provide an out of the box way to allow an app to customize CAS login page and thus workarounds such as iframes are necessary. Perhaps it should be made possible to specify a callback to the app which could paint its own login page with placeholders for necessary cas artifacts  
b)if some application in fact has the TGT then what would be the harm of issuing a session cookie with that same TGT? Even understanding that it's not recommended.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:33 PM
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Subject: Re: CAS without CAS login page using restful api and modifiedlogin-webflow.xml

I believe we've answered multiple times that it is NOT recommended to capture user credentials and submit them and then create a CAS session for the user.  CAS is the only thing that should be creating a CAS session for the user. Its a security risk for anyone to have the TGT other than the user and the CAS server. We go through great extends to NOT allow it.

While you may feel that is a use case that cannot be overlooked, its in fact a use case we purposely don't do.  Are there ways around it?  Sure.  Previous discussions have talked about embedding the login page in a form using something like an IFRAME, which still allows CAS to handle the credentials (similar to what Google Accounts does).

-Scott

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Keith Garry Boyce <garry at consultsure.com> wrote:
Again. I'd appreciate an answer on this please.

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 Anyone?

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