Installing and debugging an Apereo CAS application: A step-by-step guide to implement a custom authentication handler in Apereo CAS.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. The Central Authentication Service (CAS) is a single sign-on software application protocol. The duty of the CAS is to permit a user to access multiple applications while providing their credentials only once to a centralized CAS Server. It also allows web applications to authenticate users without gaining access to a user’s security credentials, such as a password. Apereo CAS is an open-source implementation of above mentioned CAS protocol by the Yale University laboratory. Apero CAS is not only a simply authentication software but also it has got some versatile features such as: The purpose of this article and other follow-up articles is to provide a simple and specific step-by-step guide to implement some of the features in Apereo CAS (Hereafter, it will be referred to as CAS), hoping it will help a newbie to quickly familiar with the topic. For more additional details, you can access Aspero CAS official documentation available here.
