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Possible to have no passwords or depend on ANOTHER web app for authentication?

Possible to have no passwords or depend on ANOTHER web app for authentication?

by Christian Seberino -
Number of replies: 5
I string together many web apps for classroom.  I'd like to avoid needing a separate password stage for each piece.

Possible to "turn off" the authentication features of Webwork and/or make a bridge to another web app to use its authentication instead?

Thanks!

cs
In reply to Christian Seberino

Re: Possible to have no passwords or depend on ANOTHER web app for authentication?

by John Hsu -
Yes, several external authentication methods are supported, but the documentation on them can be lacking, see if any of these work for you:

http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Authentication
http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/LTI-Basic_Authentication
http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/External_%28Shibboleth%29_Authentication
In reply to John Hsu

Re: Possible to have no passwords or depend on ANOTHER web app for authentication?

by Christian Seberino -
John

Thanks a million! You've been a great help.  I'll look over these soon.

cs
In reply to John Hsu

Re: Possible to have no passwords or depend on ANOTHER web app for authentication?

by Rishi Dhar -
The documentation mentioned above are really helpful, but it doesn't mention how to implement the CAS.pm in detail.
Can anyone help me on that ?
In reply to Rishi Dhar

Re: Possible to have no passwords or depend on ANOTHER web app for authentication?

by Paul Vojta -
Directions for implementing CAS are contained in the file

/opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/authen_CAS.conf.dist

One correction though: there should be a semicolon at the end of the line

include("conf/authen_CAS.conf");

(If you want to implement CAS for some courses but not others, don't put the line include("conf/authen_CAS.conf"); in your localOverrides.conf file. Instead, put it in the course.conf file of each course that is to use CAS.)
In reply to Christian Seberino

Re: Possible to have no passwords or depend on ANOTHER web app for authentication?

by Michael Gage -
There is also a moodle-WeBWorK bridge which allows single sign on from moodle into WeBWorK and exports the homework grades back to the moodle gradebook.  


and other wiki pages in the Moodle category.

the assignment bridge works well.  The "question" bridge is a little rusty at the moment since not many people have used it.