Whitelist Authentication

Whitelist authentication components fall into two categories: Those that accept a set of credentials stored directly in the configuration and those that accept a set of credentials from a file resource on the server.

These are:

• AcceptUsersAuthenticationHandler
• FileAuthenticationHandler

Authentication Components

Support is enabled by including the following dependency in the Maven WAR overlay:

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<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId>
  <artifactId>cas-server-support-generic</artifactId>
  <version>${cas.version}</version>
</dependency>

AcceptUsersAuthenticationHandler

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<alias name="acceptUsersAuthenticationHandler" alias="primaryAuthenticationHandler" />

The following settings are applicable:

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accept.authn.users=casuser::Mellon

FileAuthenticationHandler

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<alias name="fileAuthenticationHandler" alias="primaryAuthenticationHandler" />

The following settings are applicable:

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# file.authn.filename=classpath:people.txt
# file.authn.separator=::

Example Password File

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scott::password
bob::password2