Hi,

Out of curiosity, should we use CAS to prefill profile data ? Isn't it out
of scope for an authentication service ?

Thank you,
Mahmudul Hasan
Alberta,Canada.


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:31 AM, khurram shahzad <
khurram.shah...@zeptosystems.com> wrote:

> Hello Paul,
>
> Yes I believe you need to integrate the phpCAS into your application. As
> soon as you have done that the flow will be like
> - User comes to your application in which phpCAS is embedded, it redirects
> it to the CAS login form
> - User enters his/her credenitals there and login is done at that form and
> user is redirected back to you app (If user is already logged in, user will
> not have to enter credentials and will be redirected back)
> - After you have redirected back, you can access php session and phpCAS
> globals for array of info about logged in user like logged in user and much
> more.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> -Khurram
> Islamabad, Pakistan.
>
>
> On 3/20/2012 1:16 PM, GADSDON Paul wrote:
>
>> Hi Frosina
>>
>> Sorry I didn't get back sooner been out of the office.  I have CAS
>> working with Moodle now, but have a few more questions for you and
>> everybody else.
>>
>> Although the CAS server login works its not how I see it working from an
>> external point of view.  We have a website and people will login using CAS
>> via this website.  Once they are authenticated they get to access their
>> dashboard in the external website.  From here they will have a link to
>> Moodle.  At this point we need the user to click the hyperlink to Moodle
>> and be logged in.
>>
>> I assume that we will need to develop something using phpCas, but I am
>> not sure
>>
>> I think the issues is the fact that this link, will actually be a list of
>> their courses in a small block.  This means that the moment the user logs
>> in to their dashboard on the website, the single sign on using CAS will
>> have to be initiated.
>>
>> If it were just a link then once clicked the user would be logged in to
>> CAS and therefore get logged in to Moodle automatically, I think, is this
>> the way it works?
>>
>> Any help out there would be great
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frosina Koceva 
>> [mailto:frosina.koceva@gmail.**com<frosina.koc...@gmail.com>
>> ]
>> Sent: 05 March 2012 10:57
>> To: cas-user@lists.jasig.org
>> Subject: Re: [cas-user] Moodle CAS&  Spring
>>
>> Hi Paul, finally someone who is using CAS and moodle:) I have been also
>> working on CAS+Moodle+Drupal, but i notice that the CAS plugin in moodle is
>> made to  work only with LDAP server.
>> I've made a system like Moodle&Drupal having SingleSignOn/Off using CAS
>> and LDAP server, and this is working just fine.
>> I also try to make a  Moodle&Drupal having SingleSignOn/Off using CAS and
>> an External DB, this is not working unfortunately since moodle makes LDAP
>> mapping and i can't make ExternalDB mapping. Do you have any idea how can i
>> make this thing work?
>>
>> For your problem, i'm not sure that i can help but i will try.
>> Can you check (do you have access to) the Tomcat server logs for the CAS
>> app? There you can see bether what is going on. Also check the ldap server
>> logs.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/3/5 GADSDON 
>> Paul<paul.gads...@ext.oami.**europa.eu<paul.gads...@ext.oami.europa.eu>
>> >:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Very new to CAS so please be kind to me, however I am an old hat at
>>> Moodle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are attempting to authenticate using CAS in Moodle.  This I hope is
>>> fairly easy but would like to know if there is any information with
>>> regards to this.  Our initial problem is that our architecture
>>> department thing we are the enemy and thus will not provide us with any
>>> information.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We do now have a dev CAS server address, which when used with Moodle
>>> seems to work as far as it says that the application isn't allowed to
>>> use the CAS server.  However, when we navigate away from the CAS page
>>> it tells us that we have successfully logged out of CAS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am I right in assuming that as a network user CAS appears to be
>>> authenticating my network credentials and seems to be logging me in as
>>> a user (user level), but is rejecting us at an application level.  I
>>> think this is happening because it logs me out of CAS when I attempt
>>> to navigate away from CAS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How does one tell CAS to allow our application Moodle?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just for some more info, we intend to use CAS with Ldap to pre-fill
>>> Moodle profile fields.
>>>
>>> We also intend to use CAS to authenticate Moodle users through an
>>> external website but I am currently unsure how this works
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> SO maybe some more questions on this J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
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