CAS is an open source, single sign-on server, providing centralized access control, and authentication to web-based resources within an organization. The benefits of CAS are numerous to administrators, and it supports many applications and diverse user communities. The benefits are as follows:
- Individual or group access to resources (applications) can be configured in one location
- Broad support for a wide variety of authentication stores (to centralize user management) provides a single point of authentication and control to a widespread, cross-machine environment
- Wide authentication support is provided for web-based and non-web-based Java applications through CAS client libraries
- A single point of reference for user credentials (via CAS) is provided so that CAS client applications are not required to have any knowledge of the user...
