Central Authentication Service (CAS) Support

SchoolTool provides support for using CAS for single sign on with other applications on a school intranet. If you’re already using CAS at your school, this is a no-brainer. Otherwise, you probably need to do some research on the CAS website first. Note that using CAS authentication requires the installation and maintenance of a CAS authentication server. There are CAS modules for Moodle and other web applications popular in schools.

To enable CAS in SchoolTool...

Install python-schooltool.cas via Synaptic Package Manager or just:

sudo apt-get install python-schooltool.cas

Configure CAS authority (add to configuration):

$ sudo gedit /etc/schooltool/schooltool-2009/main.conf

And add to the file, where “my.cas.server” is replaced by the URL of your CAS server:

%import schooltool.cas
<cas_authority>
 server https://my.cas.server
</cas_authority>

Enable CAS authentification:

$ sudo gedit /etc/schooltool/schooltool-2009/plugins/schooltool.cas-configure.zcml

Put this line (only) in that file:

<include package="schooltool.cas" />

Restart SchoolTool:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/schooltool-2009 restart

SchoolTool should redirect logins to your CAS server.