add CAS authentication via django_cas and mods to external_auth

common/djangoapps/external_auth/views.py

@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.core.validators import validate_email
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 
-from student.models import TestCenterUser, TestCenterRegistration
+if settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('AUTH_USE_CAS'):
+    from django_cas.views import login as django_cas_login
+
+from student.models import UserProfile, TestCenterUser, TestCenterRegistration
 
 from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect, HttpRequest, HttpResponseForbidden
 from django.utils.http import urlquote
@@ -382,6 +385,32 @@ def ssl_login(request):
 
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# CAS (Central Authentication Service)
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def cas_login(request, next_page=None, required=False):
+    """
+        Uses django_cas for authentication.
+        CAS is a common authentcation method pioneered by Yale.
+        See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Authentication_Service
+        
+        Does normal CAS login then generates user_profile if nonexistent,
+        and if login was successful.  We assume that user details are
+        maintained by the central service, and thus an empty user profile
+        is appropriate.
+    """
+
+    ret = django_cas_login(request, next_page, required)
+    
+    if request.user.is_authenticated():
+        user = request.user
+        if not UserProfile.objects.filter(user=user):
+            up = UserProfile(name=user.username, user=user)
+            up.save()
+
+    return ret
+
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Shibboleth (Stanford and others.  Uses *Apache* environment variables)
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 def shib_login(request):

common/djangoapps/student/views.py

@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ def change_enrollment(request):
 
 @ensure_csrf_cookie
 def accounts_login(request, error=""):
+    if settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('AUTH_USE_CAS'):
+        return redirect(reverse('cas-login'))
     return render_to_response('login.html', {'error': error})
 
 # Need different levels of logging
@@ -505,7 +507,11 @@ def logout_user(request):
     # We do not log here, because we have a handler registered
     # to perform logging on successful logouts.
     logout(request)
-    response = redirect('/')
+    if settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('AUTH_USE_CAS'):
+        target = reverse('cas-logout')
+    else:
+        target = '/'
+    response = redirect(target)
     response.delete_cookie(settings.EDXMKTG_COOKIE_NAME,
                            path='/',
                            domain=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN)

lms/envs/common.py

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ MITX_FEATURES = {
     'AUTH_USE_MIT_CERTIFICATES': False,
     'AUTH_USE_OPENID_PROVIDER': False,
     'AUTH_USE_SHIB': False,
+    'AUTH_USE_CAS': False,
 
     # This flag disables the requirement of having to agree to the TOS for users registering
     # with Shib.  Feature was requested by Stanford's office of general counsel
@@ -853,3 +854,15 @@ def enable_theme(theme_name):
     # avoid collisions with default edX static files
     STATICFILES_DIRS.append((u'themes/%s' % theme_name,
                              theme_root / 'static'))
+
+######################## CAS authentication ###########################
+
+if MITX_FEATURES.get('AUTH_USE_CAS'):
+    CAS_SERVER_URL = 'https://provide_your_cas_url_here'
+    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
+        'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
+        'django_cas.backends.CASBackend',
+        )
+    INSTALLED_APPS += ('django_cas',)
+    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += ('django_cas.middleware.CASMiddleware',)
+    

lms/urls.py

@@ -363,6 +363,12 @@ if settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('AUTH_USE_SHIB'):
         url(r'^shib-login/$', 'external_auth.views.shib_login', name='shib-login'),
     )
 
+if settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('AUTH_USE_CAS'):
+    urlpatterns += (
+        url(r'^cas-auth/login/$', 'external_auth.views.cas_login', name="cas-login"),
+        url(r'^cas-auth/logout/$', 'django_cas.views.logout', {'next_page': '/'}, name="cas-logout"),
+    )
+
 if settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('RESTRICT_ENROLL_BY_REG_METHOD'):
     urlpatterns += (
         url(r'^course_specific_login/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/$',

requirements/edx/base.txt

@@ -92,3 +92,6 @@ nose-ignore-docstring
 nose-exclude
 
 git+https://github.com/mfogel/django-settings-context-processor.git
+
+# django-cas version 2.0.3 with patch to be compatible with django 1.4
+git+https://github.com/mitocw/django-cas.git