[dokuwiki] CAS support for DW

  • From: Guy Brand <gb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:00:40 +0100

  Hello,

  
  A colleague from university of Bordeaux, France, is working on
  authentication through CAS[1,2] in Dokuwiki. He managed to get it
  working by using CAS only for user/password checking in CAS, DW's
  ACLs, profiles, etc are used directly inside DW. Now he is facing a
  problem: using CAS, users auto-registration, users password change
  or users profile updates must be forbidden. Here are some changes he
  made:

    - removed DOKU_COOKIE use from auth_login;
    - removed $user, $pass, auth_browseruid, $USERINFO, variables from
      SESSION ;

  Question: what impact have these changes on the security of DW? In
  particular, in his modified DW, it's CAS which is taking care of the
  "browser uid", what issues can this raise?

  Cheers,
  gb

  [1] http://www.yale.edu/tp/auth
  [2] http://esup-phpcas.sourceforge.net/

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