here is a old version:https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CAS/Using+CAS+without+the+Login+Screen
I need to do the same with that latest version of CAS i.e. 3.5 . Can anyone provide me the steps for the same
We are doing now basically what you're asking here in my company. We have a Sharepoint website that in background is using the RESTful services for doing the real login. I wrote some posts about them in my blog and recently we used it to get access from a iOS application which contains a link to a sample program.
Important!!! We have a modification in our CAS that offers the possibility to use it for more than one domain. So wherever you find a reference to something called "Domain" in my samples just remove it, as it will not work on standard CASes
Here is a nice solution to your problem.
Just enable restful access.
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TL;DR: I'd like to make a Moodle installation and an ASP.NET Identity-based site share authentication. If they have a single login page, so much the better, but logging in to one should automatically log into the other; logout should also be shared.
I have a Moodle installation (M) at www.example.com/moodle, and another website (O) at www.example.com.
O is written using .NET 4.5.2 and has areas that require authentication to access, managed using ASP.NET Identity 2.1 with a custom user model. This model is not particularly sophisticated. It is essentially the out-of-the-box model, but with integer IDs rather than GUIDs.
M is version 2.6, with intentions to upgrade to the latest version (currently 3.1) in the near future.
Both are accessible via the public Internet; there is no requirement to be on a private network to access them.
I know of no plans to move either M or O onto a different domain. However, if one or both was to move, I imagine they would move to a subdomain of example.com.
I would like to create a single-sign-on system, allowing a login for M to also log the user into O. As it stands, I am using the external database authentication plugin for Moodle, with M referring to the database for O. While this works, it does require the user to log in twice. I would like to set it up so that logging in to either M or O will also log the user in to the other site.
I am able to create matching hashes from PHP and .NET code. Unless it is particularly relevant to the solution, please consider the creation of hashes out of scope.
Some users of M are using Moodle's built-in authentication. However, unless it is particularly relevant to the solution, please consider the migration of users out of scope.
I'd prefer O to manage users, if possible. M, by nature of being Moodle, will have to have its own records for the users, but I'd like it if they were similar to the records used by the external DB plugin: just saying that the user exists and can be found elsewhere.
Things I have tried, investigated, or considered:
Moodle's external database plugin. This is how it works at the moment. It sort of works, but requires multiple logins.
Automating the multiple logins. I've experimented with taking the posted credentials, making a HTTP request from the server to the sites' respective login forms when logging in, lifting the cookie out of the response, then sending that cookie back to the client. This also works, but it's clunky at best, and is reliant on the cookies not getting out of sync.
Using PHP's DOTNET library and doing...something. All of the documentation that I can find says that DOTNET does not work with anything other than .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5. I'm using 4.5.2, so this seems like a no-go. I don't know what I'd do even if I could get it to work with more recent versions of .NET.
Somehow getting Moodle to accept the ASP.NET Identity cookie in place of its own. This seems like the most fruitful course, given that it is a single cookie to manage.
To wrap up: I'd like to make M and O share authentication. If they have a single login page, so much the better, but logging in to one should automatically log into the other; logout should also be shared. Is this possible, and does anyone know how I should go about it?
Maybe take a look at SAML.
I believe that .NET 4.5 supports SAML?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733083%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
On the server, install simplesamlphp.
https://simplesamlphp.org/docs/stable/simplesamlphp-sp
It can be used both as a service provider and as an identity provider.
Then install this SAML plugin in Moodle :
https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_saml
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I have an existing page based on Drupal and going to develop a phoneGap iOS App. That means I just need the information of the existing page and want to fill these data in the new app.
My Question is now, do somebody know weather there is a work around or work flow to do so resp. how can I connect the existing page with another page or in my case phoneGap to get just the data? I'm new with Drupal and phoneGap so maybe you have some pages with information, tutorials or some help how to do this.
Thanks in advance yves
Drupal offers a module called "Services" which will allow you to get data or services from your website. You may need to create your own methods on that module to get the information you want to retrieve.
As for the iOS side, you can retrieve the data via XML-RPC, Rest or whatever communication protocol you choose at the server side, or go all the way with drupal-ios.
https://github.com/workhabitinc/drupal-ios-sdk/
You should start looking for the Services module and play with it. You will have an embedded console on that module to test the methods.
Once you're finish with that, take a look at drupal-ios or go deep with your own implementation via XML-RPC or whatever.
Hi I am using CAS for SSO. But problem is that i want reset password,register new user on CAS login screen.Does CAS provide these services or i have to implement?
Or Any other SSO solution exist which fulfill my requirement.
CAS is just a SSO frontend to your existing identity management solution (database, LDAP etc). It does not include any identity management features itself (create user account, reset password etc). I have recently been using the Cloudseal platform which is a full identity management solution and so far I am pretty impressed. I believe Atlassians Crowd also includes this although I have not used it. There are probably other products out there as well.
Both of these are commercial products although they are both free for the first 50 users. Crowd is a traditional standalone platform which you download, install and configure but Cloudseal is a hosted service so there is no installation and less config.
You can certainly modify the spring weblog and login page to allow for the functionality that of course you'd have to implement. You should also ask the question on #cas-user mailing list to see if a similar need in the community has been implemented by other users which you may be able to take advantage of. I remember only recently someone raised the same question to the list and there was a bit of interest in getting this feature developed and integrated. You may want to revisit the topic on the mailing list.
Hope this helps.
Lets say my web server app is in drupal or wordpress, or even code igniter, how would one get about integrating a comment system? TSpecifically what I am trying to find out is if anyone was able to find a successful approach that would save some time as opposed to me going down the road of tying myself to a specific CMS content system.
Just throwing in some considerations here (by no means complete):
Are users also accessing your content (and its comment system) via the website?
If so, you'll want to have a comment interface that is available on the website too, and the easiest choice may be to use the comment system natively supplied by your CMS / through plugins.
If on the other hand your users will only be using the iOS app(s) for commenting (via a native interface) or you'll be heavily customizing the website anyway, using a comment system independent from your CMS might be an option.
How will the content be accessed from the app?
Via a simple web view? Or will the app download via an API provided by your CMS and display it in a native UI? If you are using an API provided by your CMS, you will have the same issue with your content as with your comments when moving CMSes.
You could add an intermediate layer that abstracts from the specific CMS API.
Or if you don't really plan on moving CMSes but want to prepare for that event nevertheless, you could simply implement a no-frills "version check" to ask the server for the CMS kind / version it is using, and if it doesn't match what your app expects, ask the users to update. This isn't the prettiest user experience, but it might be sufficient depending on what you're actually planning.
We have our clients website in Drupal at present, for which we needs to create an iPhone App.
So any ideas on how to do that?
Is there any ready made available plug-ins or modules which we can use to generate Category / Articles XMLs directly from database, without much custom code n its headache?
All your suggestions are most welcome..
Thanks !
Yes. You should start with "Services" module, which will allow you to communicate your website with external websites or applications.
Also, you will need a way to communicate with Drupal. We're using XMLRPC, but you can use JSON, Rest...up to you.
Here you have an starting point: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/simplest-drupal-iphone-app
Services implements the most common used methods for Drupal. Which are node saving/load, comments and users. If you need extra functionality, you will need to create a custom module (rather easy).
You can test all the calls with the Services tab in the Drupal website. Just remember to set the permissions.
There is also a Drupal-iOS SDK, which does almost everything I told you, but uses plist instead. https://github.com/seanhellwig/drupal-ios-sdk