My bad. I am indeed using the extension http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Authenticator+Jasig+CAS <http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Authenticator+Jasig+CAS> I just assumed this extension would be the only choice for CAS authentication. So I didn't explicitly mention it.
The CAS server has its own login page (at least in the Ruby implementation that I am using). That server takes the ID and password entered on the login page and passes it through to whatever service(s) (LDAP, database, etc.) it is configured to authenticate against. The real value of CAS is that it remembers the user's login status and doesn't ask the user to re-authenticate if he wants to log in to to a different app but already has a status of logged in. Since CAS is intended to handle login requests from multiple applications, it isn't really the right place to do a mapping of user IDs such as that required specifically by xwiki. I'll continue to poke around for alternatives but it appears that, since my programming skills aren't very deep, I'll need to fall back to recreating the users. In the long term, I can see two alternative enhancements to prevent users from getting into this predicament: - remove the restriction that xwiki user IDs cannot contain periods (which I understand from previous posts is difficult and not on the list of priorities) - enhance the xwiki Jasig CAS extension to provide a mapping capability similar to that of LDAPProfileClass (this would depend on the maintainer of the extension, I suppose). All of this is just my two cents worth. I can understand why fixing this issue would not be a high priority since, in any system with a large number of users, the users would not be created manually as I have done. I also have the option of setting the system to create users when they first log in, thus avoiding the problem when adding new users in future. (For now, I need the database nicely populated to demonstrate its utility to the user community and can't rely on them all logging in first.) Thanks for your help in investigating the issue. Regards Mark -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Jasig-CAS-authentication-and-users-with-periods-in-the-id-tp7598674p7598696.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
