Configuring CAS Authentication

Introduction

This section uses the OneAccess user portal as an example to describe how to configure the CAS authentication function. After configuring the CAS authentication provider in OneAccess, you can refer to this section to configure CAS authentication for logging in to each application system.

Prerequisites

• You have permissions to access the administrator portal.
• You have configured the CAS authentication provider in OneAccess by referring to Configuring a CAS Authentication Provider.

Enabling CAS Authentication

1. Log in to the administrator portal.
2. On the top navigation bar, choose Resources > Applications.
3. Click User Portal on the page.
4. On the application information page, click the application icon.
5. Choose Login Settings > Web Applications, click in the Operation column of CAS to enable CAS authentication, and select the authentication provider added in Adding a CAS Authentication Provider.

Logging In to the User Portal Through CAS Authentication

1. Go to the user portal login page, select CAS, enter an account and password of the application, and click Login.
   Figure 1 Selecting CAS
   

2. After login, go to the administrator portal, choose Users > Organizations and Users, and view the automatically created user.
   

   • To automatically create a user if the authorized user is not associated with any system user, set No User Associated to Automatically create users. For details, see Table 2.
   • By default, users automatically created in the preceding scenario belong to the first root organization in OneAccess.