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Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service

In this chapter, we’ll examine the use of the Central Authentication Service (CAS) as a Single Sign-On (SSO) portal for Spring Security-based applications.

During the course of this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Learning about CAS, its architecture, and how it benefits system administrators and organizations of any size
  • Understanding how Spring Security can be reconfigured to handle the interception of authentication requests and redirect them to CAS
  • Configuring the JBCP Calendar application to utilize CAS SSO
  • Gaining an understanding of how the Single Logout feature can be implemented, and configuring our application to support it
  • Discussing how to use CAS proxy ticket ...

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