Tõnis,

I strongly discourage you from asking a user for credentials; security, break 
SSO, etc., etc,.

There is a proxy option in CAS, 
https://apereo.github.io/cas/6.0.x/installation/Configuring-Proxy-Authentication.html

If the proxy option does not meet your needs the surely something else under 
https://apereo.github.io/cas/6.0.x/index.html Authentication | Methods (JWT or 
PAC4J might be good). You could also try OIDC, 
https://apereo.github.io/cas/6.0.x/protocol/OIDC-Protocol.html#openid-connect-protocol

Ray

On Thu, 2019-05-16 at 03:32 -0700, Tõnis Ostrat wrote:
Hey, everybody.

To preface this, I've tried both googling and looking through the discussions 
here but still haven't found an answer for the following situation.

I'm currently building a back-end service with no web-based nor native GUI and 
I'm having trouble coming up with a proper way to secure it with CAS (5.3, if 
that matters).

My plan right now is to have an endpoint in my API where the user can POST 
their credentials which I will forward to CAS's REST API (with the ID of my 
service) .I will then return the TGT that CAS gives me to the user and on any 
subsequent data request I will try to extract the same TGT (header, cookie, 
whatever) and validate it by requesting a ST for my own service from CAS. It 
works but it sounds a bit stupid because I don't actually do anything with ST, 
it's just a confirmation call to make sure the TGT is valid.

This flow is the one I've managed to piece together basically on my own as the 
REST API portion of the official documentation is really lacking in my opinion.

Is there a better solution to this problem?

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Ray Bon
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Development Services, University Systems
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