django-cas-provider Chris Williams OVERVIEW: django-cas-provider is a provider for the Central Authentication Service (http://jasig.org/cas). It allows remote services to authenticate users for the purposes of Single Sign-On (SSO). For example, a user logs into a CAS server (provided by django-cas-provider) and can then access other services (such as email, calendar, etc) without re-entering her password for each service. For more details, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/Home and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Sign_On INSTALLATION: To install, run the following command from this directory: python setup.py install Or, put cas_provider somewhere on your Python path. USAGE: *) Add 'cas_provider' to your INSTALLED_APPS tuple in settings.py. *) In settings.py, set LOGIN_URL to '/cas/login/' and LOGOUT_URL to '/cas/logout/' before they expire. Default: 5 minutes *) In urls.py, put the following line: (r'^cas/', include('cas_provider.urls')), *) Create login/logout templates (templates/cas/login.html and templates/cas/logout.html).