[Building Sakai] SAKAI AND SSO

[Seth Theriault]

Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> Not sure about OpenSSO, but if you can use CAS (http://www.jasig.org/cas) then
> there is a guide here:
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/KoCtAQ

Since OpenSSO can set "REMOTE_USER":

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-5816/gawim?a=view

and seems to have web.xml servlet filter capabilities:

http://developers.sun.com/identity/reference/techart/policyagents.html

you should be able to follow a the CAS instructions, substituting 
the the CAS-specific stuff for OpenSSO stuff. For example, you 
do NOT want to use the <filter-mapping> code in the OpenSSO 
example.

Seth