Re: [Hypercontent-users] HC2.0b4 integration with uPortal

[Alex V. <av...@co...>]

Hi Juris,
	Since HC2 is now a separate application from uPortal, it requires you 
to login as well.  HC2 uses the JAAS authentication architecture to 
support logins; the default implementation uses a username and MD5-hash 
password stored in an XML file.  The link I sent before provides a JAAS 
LoginModule that uses CAS for login.  You could write a custom 
LoginModule that would login to HyperContent by evaluating the "uid" 
parameter of the request, but I must caution that this is highly 
insecure; it would allow anyone to login to HC2 pretending to be 
someone else by simply passing their UID directly to HC2.

The LocalConnectionContext is a uPortal API that lets you plug in 
secure single-sign-on methods like CAS.

Are you using CAS?  If not, what are you using for logins?

-Alex

On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:32 AM, sd...@la... wrote:

> Hello, Alex!
> Thanks for your answer!
> I am not clear what does it mean to use LocalConnectionContext to pass
> authentication credentials to HyperContent. Will it be enough to fill 
> in the
> right values in the field "Default IPerson Attributes to Pass" of the 
> channel
> adding form of uPortal? I tried to fill in with value "uid" which as 
> far as I
> am concerned contains username but the channel did no succeed to 
> perform an
> authorization.
>
> Best regards,
> Juris Treibahs
> University of Latvia
>
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