Infrastructure Team/Central Login: Difference between revisions
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* For now https://obs.sugarlabs.org requires Basic HTTP Auth. | * For now https://obs.sugarlabs.org requires Basic HTTP Auth. | ||
* CAS, the most common method, with a requirement to provide login/password, is useful for people who are not arriving from a Sugar Shell instance (and so, Sugar's certificate-based method does not work implicitly for them), and for casual visitors or those wishing to avoid the technical work of taking care of user side certificates. | * [[wikipedia:Central_Authentication_Service |CAS]], the most common method, with a requirement to provide login/password, is useful for people who are not arriving from a Sugar Shell instance (and so, Sugar's certificate-based method does not work implicitly for them), and for casual visitors or those wishing to avoid the technical work of taking care of user side certificates. | ||
* Users certificates are useful for people who need to be authenticated from a Sugar Shell where Sugar might perform some authentication routines under the hood. | * Users certificates are useful for people who need to be authenticated from a Sugar Shell where Sugar might perform some authentication routines under the hood. | ||