Re: [Hypercontent-users] CASIFY Hypercontent - issue

[tom t. <j_l...@ya...>]

Hi Alex,
Thanks for your instructions I got lot of good news
this time.

Please see my comments below also the final
doubts/questions that I have.


> However it could be the application
> is having a hard  
> time finding the appropriate jaas.properties; JAAS
> relies on a system  
> property "java.security.auth.login.config" to
> determine where to look  
> up the jaas config file - if you have more than one
> webapp using JAAS  
> in your container, this could theoretically cause a
> conflict.  Since  
> you mentioned that you are also using JAAS to
> configure CAS, I wonder  
> if this might be the issue.  One way to check would
> be to add your  
> HyperContent JAAS configuration block to the
> jaas.properties you are  
> using for CAS to see if it can pick up the
> configuration from there.

Above was the reason for the conflict hence I copied
HyperContent JAAS configuration block to my existing
jaas configuration file. Now it is working fine.
 
> Permissions do not get inherited from the bootstrap,
> so you should  
> grant read access in permissions.xml for your new
> project.

Yes I did modified the permissions.xml accordingly,
intention is without any authentication students
should be able to see the contents. In order to
achieve this via uPortal channel, I created a uPortal
WebProxy (without passing any of the credentials) to
HC resoure. This also working fine. I had to on the
Tidy in uPortal.


Well even though I casifed the HC, still I dont use
that feature as students retrieve,only the public read
only contents from HC via WebProxy.  But still I am
keeping the casified HC hoping it will be useful for
the content editing part by authors.

Do we really get any advantage by having a WebProxy
why not a inline frame for the above scenario (read
only access).



> This is how both Columbia and Hull are using HC with
> uPortal at the  
> moment - publishing web proxy channels, with links
> from the HC  
> dashboard out to HC for editing.  With CAS working,
> though, the user  
> will not have to login again when going from uPortal
> to HC.  I think  
> the new portlet will open up some better integration
> possibilities,  
> but certainly there are people today working
> successfully in a web  
> proxied environment with the editing outside of the
> portal.

The above is the one which is not clear to me. Well I
was under the impression providing a link (html href)
( e.g
http://localhost:8080/hypercontent/my-project/?mode=interactive)
for the authers and publishers in the uPortal channel
and ask them to login again as it does not carry any
credentials even though the authers/publishers logged
into uPortal via CAS.

I know via WebProxy we can pass credentials to HC but
due to the limitations of HC we cant provide a
WebProxy for content editing. Only posibility is to
give a link inside a channel which will pop up a
seperate Window with HC.

In your explanation what is meant by the following.

>With CAS working,
> though, the user  
> will not have to login again when going from uPortal
> to HC.

Assuming this user is a Auther/Publisher can you
explain what is meant by the above.

Also what is meant by the 'dashboard' in your
explanation. Is this the following
http://localhost:8080/hypercontent/index.xml?mode=dashboard-portlet

I executed the above url and it goes to the HC first
page where it lists all the projects,it that what it
supports to do. I am not clear on that.

Now I made the HC cas enabled,it works fine,but what
about the logout, well I think now it should invoke
the cas/logout how to configure that.


Hope you will clarify the final doubts that I have.




 
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