Enterprise Single Sign-On for All

Trusted Authentication

The trusted authentication handler provides support for trusting authentication performed by some other component in the HTTP request handling chain. Proxies (including Apache in a reverse proxy scenario) are the most common components that perform authentication in front of CAS.

Trusted authentication handler support is enabled by including the following dependency in the WAR overlay:

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<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apereo.cas</groupId>
  <artifactId>cas-server-support-trusted-webflow</artifactId>
  <version>${cas.version}</version>
</dependency>