[support] Shibboleth module for drupal

[Jeff Beeman]

+1 for the CAS module - it has worked great for us at ASU, in two different
authentication domains.

On 8/30/07, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu> wrote:
>
> I tried this with drupal to first, but because of the desire to protect
> some pages, but not all within drupal I abandoned it later.
>
> FYI:
> I maintain a CAS module which may or may not be of interest to you.  It
> handles cas authentication within drupal.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Jonah Bossewitch
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:22 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Cc: doogieb at gmail.com; roczei at niif.hu
> Subject: Re: [support] Shibboleth module for drupal
>
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to bring to your attention our approach to handing a
> CAS-based single-sign-on solution with drupal.
>
> In a nutshell, we wrote an apache auth module (using mod_python's auth
> support, not c, though a mod_perl port would probably be a snap) that
> does the CAS dance, and then adapts CAS to Basic Auth (namely, it
> populates the REMOTE_USER variable), allowing for the ordinary drupal
> remote user auth product to work for auth.
>
> I wrote this up in more detail here:
> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/mod_python+auth+module
>
> We had to tweak remoteuser a bit to make it work w/ drupal 5, though the
> main remote user might be up to snuff
>
> http://svn.cc.columbia.edu/viewvc/auth/drupal/trunk/?root=ccnmtl
>
> Hope this helps,
> /Jonah
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jonah Bossewitch
> Senior Technical Architect
> ccnmtl.columbia.edu
> jonah at ccnmtl dot columbia dot edu
> 212.854.1815
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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