06winter Cental Authentication Service highlights

This page exists for followup on the Winter 2006 JA-SIG conference disucssion / Birds of a Feather on the Central Authentication Service.

Title: Central Authentication Service highlights
Facilitator: Andrew Petro

Discription as it existed before the conference:

Presentation of the latest progress and discussion of the JA-SIG Central Authentication Service. What is the JA-SIG Java CAS Client and how does it differ from the Yale Java CAS client? What's new in the Central Authentication Service server project, including updates on available authentication handler implementations?

Techniques for integrating CAS into your existing infrastructure, including review of how CAS can be made to post credentials to PeopleSoft and how CAS can play well with your existing SSO solution, e.g. PubCookie.

What was actually discussed

• What's in the prospective CAS Server 3.0.6
• What is Single Sign Out and how might it be implemented?
• ESUP-Portail's use of CAS.
• Existence of JA-SIG Java CAS client. Show of hands of parties who had looked at it / were interested in hearing more about it in that venue indicated little existing knowledge and preference for discussing other facets of CAS.
• How an existing SSO solution, such as PubCookie, can be made to front CAS for an incremental adoption path for adding CAS to campus IT infrastructure.
• Clustering CAS for performance and for robustness
• Where and how and why to configure CAS password handlers and other authentication handlers

Interest expressed in an intro to CAS / "flying tickets diagram" session led to creation of a CAS kiosk for the next day.

Materials

Attached is the powerpoint used to introduce the BoF. It has very little content. This was mostly a discussion session.