[support] setting log-in link to "cas"

[Jason White]

Dave,

I'm very  interested.  This is where I picked up the one that I am  
testing out:

http://www.longsight.com/blog/drupal-cas-single-sign-on

When you say ...
> The technique I used for this was to develop my own login block to  
> replace
> the login block that's available in the "user module".

That may be what they mean by:
> 3) Set a Login link (primary links in your theme works well) that  
> goes to "cas"

I'm just still getting up to speed on these aspects of drupal.

Jason


On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Metzler, David wrote:

> I ended up developing a CAS module for drupal to perform this auth.  I
> haven't ported it to 4.7 yet, but will be doing this.  It's not on the
> drupal site.
>
> What plugin are you using?  I wasn't aware of other code to support  
> CAS
> authentication in drupal.....
>
> Would you be interested in my CAS module when I port it to 4.7?  The
> technique I used for this was to develop my own login block to replace
> the login block that's available in the "user module".
>
> Dave
>
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> Subject: [support] setting log-in link to "cas"
>
> Hi All ...
>
> I've been lurking for a little bit now and finally have a 'real'
> question.  I've been very pleased with testing Drupal so far. I have a
> small group that needs a content management platform. Drupal seems to
> provide the right balance of being configurable-yet-simple enough  
> to use
> for the task.
>
> Also, I'm looking to use single sign-on with drupal via CAS.  The
> plug-in installs without a hitch and I configured the host, path etc.
> In the instructions it says to:
>
>> 3) Set a Login link (primary links in your theme works well) that
> goes to "cas"
>
> I'm not quite getting it. Does it mean to add a menu item with a  
> path of
> "cas" or "/cas"?  If so, that does not work. Or does it mean to  
> hack the
> them where the login block is? As far as I can see, the login form
> action is just  "/?q=node&destination=".  Would you set that to "? 
> q=cas"
> or "?q=node/cas" ? What in the 'theme' would you modify? Themes are
> coming up on my list of things to figure out ...
> but grepping for 'login' or 'user-login' in my current theme's  
> directory
> doesn't turn anything up in those files.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jason
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