AuthCAS(3)

NAME
AuthCAS - Client library for JA-SIG CAS 2.0 authentication server

VERSION
Version 1.7

DESCRIPTION
AuthCAS aims at providing a Perl API to JA-SIG Central Authentication System (CAS). Only a basic Perl library is provided with CAS whereas AuthCAS is a full object-oriented library.

PREREQUISITES
This script requires IO::Socket::SSL and LWP::UserAgent

SYNOPSIS
  A simple example with a direct CAS authentication

  use AuthCAS;
  my $cas = new AuthCAS(casUrl => 'https://cas.myserver,
                    CAFile => '/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt',
                    );

  my $login_url = $cas->getServerLoginURL('http://myserver/app.cgi');

  ## The user should be redirected to the $login_url
  ## When coming back from the CAS server a ticket is provided in the QUERY_STRING

  ## $ST should contain the receaved Service Ticket
  my $user = $cas->validateST('http://myserver/app.cgi', $ST);

  printf "User authenticated as %s\n", $user;

  In the following example a proxy is requesting a Proxy Ticket for the target application

  $cas->proxyMode(pgtFile => '/tmp/pgt.txt',
                  pgtCallbackUrl => 'https://myserver/proxy.cgi?callback=1
                  );

  ## Same as before but the URL is the proxy URL
  my $login_url = $cas->getServerLoginURL('http://myserver/proxy.cgi');

  ## Like in the previous example we should receave a $ST

  my $user = $cas->validateST('http://myserver/proxy.cgi', $ST);

  ## Process errors
  printf STDERR "Error: %s\n", &AuthCAS::get_errors() unless (defined $user);

  ## Now we request a Proxy Ticket for the target application
  my $PT = $cas->retrievePT('http://myserver/app.cgi');

  ## This piece of code is executed by the target application
  ## It received a Proxy Ticket from the proxy
  my ($user, @proxies) = $cas->validatePT('http://myserver/app.cgi', $PT);

  printf "User authenticated as %s via %s proxies\n", $user, join(',',@proxies);

DESCRIPTION
Jasig CAS is Yale University's web authentication system, heavily inspired by Kerberos. Release 2.0 of CAS provides "proxied credential" feature that allows authentication tickets to be carried by intermediate applications (Portals for instance), they are called proxy.

This AuthCAS Perl module provides required subroutines to validate and retrieve CAS tickets.

  new
  my $cas = new AuthCAS(
                    casUrl => 'https://cas.myserver',
                    CAFile => '/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt',
                    );

The "new" constructor lets you create a new AuthCAS object.

casUrl - REQUIRED
CAFile
CAPath
loginPath - '/login'
logoutPath - '/logout'
serviceValidatePath - '/serviceValidate'
proxyPath - '/proxy'
proxyValidatePath - '/proxyValidate'
SSL_version - unset
    Sets the version of the SSL protocol used to transmit data. If the default causes connection issues, setting it to 'SSLv3' may help. see the documentation for "METHODS" in IO::Socket::SSL for more information see <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=746493> for more details.

Returns a new AuthCAS or dies on error.

  get_errors
Return module errors

  proxyMode
Use the CAS object as a proxy

pgtFile =item pgtCallbackUrl

  dump_var

  getServerLoginURL($service)
Returns a URL that you can redirect the browser to, which includes the URL to return to

TODO: it escapes the return URL, but I've noticed some issues with more complicated URL's

  getServerLoginGatewayURL($service)
Returns non-blocking login URL ie: if user is logged in, return the ticket, otherwise do not prompt for login

  getServerLogoutURL($service)
Return logout URL After logout user is redirected back to the application

  getServerServiceValidateURL($service, $ticket, $pgtUrl)
Returns

  getServerProxyURL($targetService, $pgt)
Returns

  getServerProxyValidateURL($service, $ticket)
Returns

  validateST($service, $ticket)
Validate a Service Ticket Also used to get a PGT

Returns the login that created the ticket, if the ticket is valid for that $service URL

returns undef if the ticket is not valid.

  validatePT($service, $ticket)
Validate a Proxy Ticket

Returns the login that created the ticket, if the ticket is valid for that $service URL,
    and a list of Proxies used.

    user returned == undef if its not a valid ticket

  callCAS($url)
## Access a CAS URL and parses received XML

Returns

  storePGT($pgtIou, $pgtId)

  retrievePT($service)
Returns

  get_https2
request a document using https, return status and content

Sven suspects this is intended to be private.

Returns

SEE ALSO
JA-SIG Central Authentication Service <http://www.jasig.org/cas>

was Yale Central Authentication Service <http://www.yale.edu/tp/auth/>

phpCAS <http://esup-phpcas.sourceforge.net/>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003, 2005,2006,2007,2009 Olivier Salaun - Comite Reseau des Universites <http://www.cru.fr>
              2012 Sven Dowideit - <mailto:SvenDowideit@fosiki.com>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHORS
  Olivier Salaun
  Sven Dowideit