[Ala-portal] How to bypass the authentication process of Collectory component

Daniel Lins daniel.lins at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 12:35:24 CET 2014


Hi Tim,

Sure. We can do this.

When our system is ready, we can update the Wiki with these informations.

Regards,

--
Daniel Lins da Silva
(Cel) 55 11 96144-4050
Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing (Biocomp)
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
daniellins at usp.br
daniel.lins at gmail.com


2014-03-06 8:03 GMT-03:00 Tim Robertson [GBIF] <trobertson at gbif.org>:

> Great stuff Daniel,
>
> I'd like to update the wiki (or I can give you access to, which might be
> better) with a link to your installation, and details of it when its ready
> if that is ok?  It will be highly useful for others to know what hardware
> you are running on, OS versions etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Daniel Lins wrote:
>
> Thanks Dave!
>
> We did not use the installation script. We had some issues during script
> execution (I'll post these issues in another email). We did a manual
> installation through the build of the source code files.
>
> I believe our problem was in the line below. I'll test and send to you a
> feedback.
>
> # disable all security
> security.cas.uriFilterPattern=/dummy
>
> Thanks again.
>
> --
> Daniel Lins da Silva
> (Cel) 55 11 96144-4050
> Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing (Biocomp)
> University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
> daniellins at usp.br
> daniel.lins at gmail.com
>
>
> 2014-03-06 0:05 GMT-03:00 <David.Martin at csiro.au>:
>
>>  Thanks Daniel.
>>
>>  Did you use the installation script ? If so it should have CAS disabled
>> by default.
>>
>>  The file:
>>
>>  /data/collectory/config/collectory-config.properties
>>
>>  should look like:
>>
>>  # Security bypass
>>
>> security.cas.bypass=true
>>
>>
>> # disable all security
>>
>> security.cas.uriFilterPattern=/dummy
>>
>>  Cheers
>>
>>  Dave Martin
>> ALA
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* ala-portal-bounces at lists.gbif.org [
>> ala-portal-bounces at lists.gbif.org] on behalf of Daniel Lins [
>> daniel.lins at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* 06 March 2014 13:53
>> *To:* ala-portal at lists.gbif.org
>> *Subject:* [Ala-portal] How to bypass the authentication process of
>> Collectory component
>>
>>   Hi Guys,
>>
>>  We did the deployment of the main ALA components (Biocache, Hubs-webapp
>> and Collectory) and now we do some tests with local data. However, we don't
>> have access to the administrative features of Collectory component.
>>
>>  We check that the ALA access control is accomplished through the CAS
>> component (Central Authentication Service), and we will install it soon.
>> Now we would like to bypass this authentication in order to test the
>> administrative features without the CAS deployment/configuration.
>>
>>  I noticed that exist some parameters in the collectory configuration
>> files to do this, but in our tests did not work properly.
>>
>>  Can we disable (bypass) the authentication process to use the collectoryadministrative features without the CAS deployment? How to do this?
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  Best Regards,
>>
>>  --
>> Daniel Lins da Silva
>> (Cel) 55 11 96144-4050
>> Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing (Biocomp)
>>  University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
>>  daniellins at usp.br
>>  daniel.lins at gmail.com
>>
>
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Daniel Lins da Silva
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