From: Sebastian Annies Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:16:36 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Edited README.rst via GitHub X-Git-Tag: 22.4~32^2~12 X-Git-Url: https://git.mdrn.pl/django-cas-provider.git/commitdiff_plain/38bde55959257eaef6b76dc3f45424c7d0bd64e8?ds=inline Edited README.rst via GitHub --- diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 8bbe307..e8a53f9 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ django-cas-provider OVERVIEW ========= -django-cas-provider is a provider for the `Central Authentication Service `_. It supports CAS version 1.0 and parts of CAS version 2.0 protocol. 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 the `CAS wiki `_ and `Single Sign-On on Wikipedia `_. +django-cas-provider is a provider for the `Central Authentication Service `_. It supports +CAS version 1.0 and CAS version 2.0 protocol. 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 the `CAS wiki `_ and +`Single Sign-On on Wikipedia `_. INSTALLATION ============= @@ -92,7 +96,7 @@ Optional arguments: validate ------------- -It checks the validity of a service ticket. It is part of the CAS 1.0 protocol and thus does +It checks the validity of a Service ticket. It is part of the CAS 1.0 protocol and thus does not handle proxy authentication. It has not arguments. @@ -100,8 +104,17 @@ It has not arguments. service_validate ------------------------- -It checks the validity of a service ticket and returns an XML-fragment response via CAS 2.0 protocol. -Work with proxy is not supported yet. +It checks the validity of a Service Ticket and returns an XML-fragment response via CAS 2.0 protocol. +It has not arguments. + +proxy_validate +------------------------- + +It checks the validity of a Proxy Ticket and returns an XML-fragment response via CAS 2.0 protocol. + +proxy +------------------------- +Creates a proxy ticket for a given Proxy Granting Ticket. It has not arguments.