cas

This document provides a comprehensive overview of the Central Authentication Service (CAS), an open-source, multilingual identity provider and single sign-on solution. It details CAS's features, contributions, documentation, and support, along with instructions for getting started and information about its development and licensing.

Central Authentication Service (CAS)

Introduction

Welcome to the home of the Central Authentication Service project, more commonly referred to as CAS. CAS is an

enterprise multilingual identity provider and single sign-on solution for the web and attempts to

be a comprehensive platform for your authentication and authorization needs.

CAS is an open and well-documented authentication protocol. The primary implementation of the protocol is an open-source Java server

component by the same name hosted here, with support for a plethora of additional authentication protocols and features such a SAML2, OpenID Connect, MFA

and many many more.

Contributions

If you have already identified an enhancement or a bug, it is STRONGLY recommended that you submit a pull request to address the case.

There is no need for special ceremony to create separate issues. The pull request IS the issue and it will be tracked and tagged as such.

Documentation

Additional resources are available as follows:

Getting Started

It is recommended to deploy CAS locally using the WAR Overlay method. Cloning or downloading the CAS codebase

is ONLY required if you wish to contribute to the development of the project.

We recommend that you review this page to get started with your CAS deployment.

Features

The following features are supported by the CAS project:

The foundations of CAS are built upon: Spring Boot and

Spring Cloud.

Development

Support

Apereo CAS is 100% free open source software managed by Apereo, licensed under Apache v2. Our

community has access to all releases of the CAS software with absolutely no costs. We welcome contributions from our community of all

types and sizes. The time and effort to develop and maintain this project is dedicated by a group

of volunteers and contributors. Commercial support options may be found here.

If you (or your employer) benefit from this project, please consider becoming a Friend of Apereo and contribute.