From: Sarah Jones (sarah@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 15:28:07 PDT
The April Webnet meeting is next week:
Tuesday, 17 April
775A Tan Hall
12 noon - 1:30 PM
Speaker: Greg Small, Workstation Support Services
Topic: CalNet Use in Web Sites
A growing number of web sites need to control access, identify campus
customers, or personalize responses. CalNet is a group of services
supporting authentication and directory lookup based on the campus
student and employee databases. CalNet frees you from having to
maintain your own authentication and authorization data, and allows
you to focus on your specific web functions.
Recently the CalNet Authentication Web Server (AWS) has become available. AWS
uses the CalNet ID to provide very secure, positive identification
for campus without imposing rigorous security requirements on your
server. Hence, the CalNet ID can be used for high security on Web
sites, as well as lightweight, web-based applications.
The discussion will start by introducing the basic ideas of authentication
and authorization, then discuss and demonstrate using the Authentication
Web Server and some directory lookups. The examples will be for Apache
using PHP and Perl (available for UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS X), but he hopes
those of you who have been working with AWS and LDAP using other web
environments will contribute your experience.
You can warm up for the talk by looking at:
CalNet: "http://calnet.berkeley.edu/about.html"
AWS: "https://software.berkeley.edu/AWSTokenDecode/default.html"
CalNet LDAP: "http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ldapproj/"
"http://php.net/manual/en/ref.ldap.php"
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