CrowdAuthenticationAuthorization

It is important to note that while Crowd handles authorization and authentication, the directories that are controlled by crowd and still also be used for authorization and authentication. Crowd offers some nice features such as single sign on and openID but that does not mean that applications can no longer directly connect to AD or OpenLDAP for these purposes as well.

A full list of supported applications and documentation is available here.

Apache

This works very much like the current Cosign solution. The apache configuration contains some information on how to talk to the Crowd server and the authentication and authorization is handled via an Apache Perl module. Any web application can now use crowd instead of Cosign including existing Turbogears applications (BENS), other protected sites (Netsys Wiki), or University single sign on solution.

• Crowd+Apache
• Requires mod_perl and 4 perl modules

Subversion

This builds off of the Apache module for subversion control.

• Crowd+Subversion

Everything Else

Crowd has a SOAP API for connecting custom applications into Crowd.

• SOAP API Documentation

-- ChristopherPepe - 25 Feb 2008