Infrastructure Team/Central Login: Difference between revisions

reference link for CAS
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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID OpenID] authentication.


== Authenticate back-end ==
== Authenticate back-end ==


* ldap.sugarlabs.org
* ldap.sugarlabs.org