ny university worth the title is likely to have a very mixed identity environment. At Plymouth State University we’ve been pursuing a strategy of unifying identity and offering single sign-on to web services, but an inventory last year still revealed a great number of systems not integrated with either our single sign-on (AuthN) or authorization [...]

Posted September 29, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, CAS, hacks, identity, identity management, idm, login, single sign on, university portal, wordpress, WordPress MU. 7 Comments.

strong>Situation: using WordPress MU (possibly including BuddyPress) on multiple domains or sub-domains of a large organization with lots of users.
WordPress MU is a solid CMS to support a large organization. Each individual blog has its own place in the organization’s URL scheme (www.site.org/blogname), and each blog can have its own administrators and other users. Groups [...]

Posted September 3, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, cms, cookies, hacks, sub-domains, wordpress, WordPress MU. 4 Comments.

I’m not really part of the Jasig CAS Community (learn more), but I do maintain the wpCAS WordPress CAS client and I’ve started development of a CAS server component for WordPress. That project is on hold because one of the products that I’d expected to integrate with it doesn’t use standard CAS and the vendor [...]

Posted April 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, authn, CAS, identity management, idm, single sign on, standards. Be the first one.

I’m working to integrate an application on a remote-hosted IIS server into our CAS environment. CASisapi (svn trunk or svn tags/production) may do the trick, though Phil Sladen struggled with it (in 2005). There’s reason to doubt it. Not only is the sparse information all old, I first learned about it from a page full [...]

Posted October 7, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, authn, CAS, central authentication service, identity management, idm, IIS, ISAPI. One Comment.

I said “identity management is the next big thing” back in September. That was before I’d seen Sxip founder Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2.0. Zach peeped me the link and told me I wouldn’t regret watching the presentation. He was right. Everybody, especially the people who don’t yet care about identity management, should take [...]

Posted October 26, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: authentication, authorization, dick hardt, identity, identity 2.0, identity management, identity2.0, idm, sxip. 7 Comments.