topic Re: SSO for WebService in Alfresco Archive

SSO for WebService

tobias_amon — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:20:26 GMT

Hello There,is there a way to modify the AuthenticationService, to be able to verify a ticket from CAS-SSO server??Thanks…

Re: SSO for WebService

aldebaranl2 — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:59:21 GMT

Hi all,

I have the same needs.
Is there a solution now ?

Thanks

Re: SSO for WebService

mikewaters — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:19:45 GMT

What exactly do you need to achieve - to authenticate a web service call, or to authenticate a ticket passed as part of a REST call?

If you just want to authenticate a web service call from an external system you can use the CAS SSO filter described in the wiki:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Central_Authentication_Service_Configuration

You would need to modify the filter mappings to protect the web service calls.

If you need to grab the ticket from elsewhere out of the web service call and authenticate against that then you will need to create a new implementation of the AuthenticationService as described briefly here:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Security_Services

The CAS Client filter contains the code to verify a CAS ticket so you should be able to call that from your code.
If you don't want to get into the CAS code then you can have your custom AuthenticationService call a URL that is protected by the CAS filter. If that call succeeds then the ticket is valid.

Hope that helps

Re: SSO for WebService

alfuser008 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:23:20 GMT

Hello Mike,

hopefully you can help me with more information on this issue. I have a working CAS-SSO-Alfresco installation, the CAS-SSO is also used with Zarafa (for e-mail and collaboration). There is an Zarafa-plugin which allows you to store e-mails directly in Alfresco. This plugin uses the Alfresco-(SOAP)-Webservices (AuthenticationService?wsdl). Is there a way to overcome the authentication with username and password to get a ticket and use the CAS-Session instead.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards

Stephan

Re: SSO for WebService

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Re: SSO for WebService

chengdong — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:06:31 GMT

Hi
Anyone knows why the AuthenticationUtils.startSession() does not work in JSP. It work in standalone java class. Do I need to add any certificate into the server?
I just do not know what is wrong.

Thanks for help

   try {
         WebServiceFactory.setEndpointAddress("https://cms-dev.vbi.vt.edu/alfresco/api");
          AuthenticationUtils.startSession("admin", "admin");
         String ticket = AuthenticationUtils.getTicket();
         return ticket;

      } catch (Exception serviceException) {
         throw new RuntimeException("Problem invoking web script",
               serviceException);
      }
      finally {
       // End the session
       AuthenticationUtils.endSession();
       if (conn != null) conn.disconnect();
       }
   }%>

Re: SSO for WebService

lourdes — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:48:06 GMT

Good morning, I need the same.
Have you found a way to authenticate the web service from cas?

How do I replace this call?
AuthenticationUtils.startSession(username,password);

if my user is already authenticated by the CAS

Re: SSO for WebService

rinachen — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:13:02 GMT

Shouldn't you be Outsourcing Tech Support in order to address some of the problems?

Re: SSO for WebService

clock1988 — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:53:48 GMT

Me too. How can I change Startsession function to authenticate with SSO?

Re: SSO for WebService

lewcrippen12 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:55:22 GMT

Hi guys,

Hey…..guys…..I don't have any idea of it…….I think u should take help from net or any expert who know about networking or networking engineer.

Thanks

Regards
~~Lew~~

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