CAS (legacy)

Legacy CAS (Central Authentication Service) configuration carried over from Chamilo 1.x. See CAS for the current status of the CAS authenticator in Chamilo 2.x.

Access these settings under Administration > Configuration settings > CAS. This category contains 7 settings, listed below with the title and comment shipped in the platform's settings fixtures (SettingsCurrentFixtures.php).

The variable name in code is shown in monospace. Use it when scripting via the API or when you need to change those settings at a global level by editing config/settings_override.yaml.

Settings

cas_activate

Enable CAS authentication

Enabling CAS authentication will allow users to authenticate with their CAS credentials. Go to Plugin to add a configurable 'CAS Login' button for your Chamilo campus. Or you can force CAS authentication by setting cas[force_redirect] in app/config/auth.conf.php.

cas_add_user_activate

Enable CAS user addition

Enable CAS user addition. To create the user account from the LDAP directory, the extldap_config and extldap_user_correspondance tables must be filled in in app/config/auth.conf.php

cas_port

Main CAS server port

The port on which to connect to the main CAS server

cas_protocol

Main CAS server protocol

The protocol with which we connect to the CAS server

cas_server

Main CAS server

This is the main CAS server which will be used for the authentication (IP address or hostname)

cas_server_uri

Main CAS server URI

The path to the CAS service

update_user_info_cas_with_ldap

Update CAS-authenticated user account information from LDAP

Makes sure the user firstname, lastname and email address are the same as current values in the LDAP directory