Common Authentication Services Adapter (CASA)
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Description
CASA is an open source component infrastructure for securely storing credential and other confidential data that can be used for authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and other purposes by users, services and applications on a desktop or server operating system.
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Features
- Open Source and part of the SUSE distribution (Also available on Windows).
- Credential service for Enabling applications to single sign-On.
- Leverages the Desktop identity and login for access control.
- Scalable and fault tolerant.
- Cross-platform support (Linux, and Windows).
- Supports managing multiple identity repositories (GKring, KWallet, FireFox Password Manager).
- Provides a storage (vault) for credentials and secrets.
- Supports multiple authentication schemes.
- Forward compatible.
- Network Authentication component is token based.
- Provides the ability for a single point of management for multiple credential stores.
- Supports session based or presistant storage for credentials.
- Supports sharing of credentials.
- Supports linking of credentials among different stores.
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CASA is Not
- A Network or desktop login infrastructure.
- Mechanisms/APIs for changing and setting passwords in applications.
- Application login policy enforcer
For more details on how CASA works please see the architecture section.
