On Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:10:16 PM UTC, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
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> I am open to change this. Do you want to attempt a patch to address some 
> of the issues?
>

Any news regarding this issue? I've tested it today with 2.9.4 and the 
behaviour is the same. it would be awesome to have this 'fixed'.
 

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> Massimo
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> On Sunday, 16 February 2014 05:39:31 UTC-6, Alexei Vinidiktov wrote:
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>> The first issue is that the client app that uses a cas provider only 
>> provides one option: to log in - in the top navigation bar. I think some 
>> users would be at a loss as to how to register since there is no explicit 
>> link.
>>
>> The second and third issues are with the cas provider login page. After 
>> the user follows the login link in the cas client app what they see in the 
>> cas provider app is the navigation bar that has a drop down menu that says 
>> "Login". And they see two fields for entering their email and password and 
>> a single login button. 
>>
>> So the second issue is that coming from the cas client page they can 
>> wrongly assume that the login drop down menu in the navigation bar of the 
>> cas provider app can only log them in (not register). 
>>
>> A work around would be to use the default mode for the auth links in the 
>> nav bar which will show all the links (login, registration, lost password) 
>> on the nav bar (instead of a drop down). 
>>
>> The third issue is with the single login button on the cas provider app. 
>> For consistency with the normal (not cas) login pages I think that instead 
>> of showing only one login button it would be more user-friendly if the 
>> login page in the cas provider displayed the same buttons underneath the 
>> email and password boxes - the login, register and lost password button - 
>> as the normal login page does.
>>
>> The fourth issue is that if the user is not registered and thus goes from 
>> the client app to the cas login page and from there to the cas registration 
>> page, after a successful registration they are not redirected to the cas 
>> client app. I think many users would not know how to return to the cas 
>> client app after the registration.
>>
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>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Tim Richardson 
>> <t...@growthpath.com.au>wrote:
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>>> As long as you allow users to register in your auth settings (and by 
>>> default they can), there is a register option on the login menu of the cas 
>>> screen. 
>>> This is based on trunk.
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