Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Adding


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Mar 11, 2010, 1:11:36 PM (14 years ago)
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pmauduit
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    2424=== Links ===
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    26 None.
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     27[http://www.jasig.org/cas CAS homepage]
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    3435== Motivations ==
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    36 The default behavior of GeoNetwork is to use a builtin database in order to store authentication credentials. Since there are some different auth mechanisms proposed (LDAP, Shibboleth ...), the goal of this proposal is to permit an external authentication with CAS, which could be configured to use a LDAP, PAM, MySQL or whatever supported by CAS.
     37The default behaviour of GeoNetwork is to use a builtin database in order to store authentication credentials. Since there are several different authentication mechanisms proposed (LDAP, Shibboleth ...), the goal of this proposal is to permit an external authentication with CAS, which could be configured to use a LDAP, as well as PAM, MySQL or whatever supported by CAS.
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    3839== Proposal ==
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     41Please note that the current patch is still in a "Work In Progress" state ; some options have to be improved and a little rework is needed before expecting it to be added to the trunk
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    4143=== Backwards Compatibility Issues ===