Ticket based authentication : Installation guide

Ticket Direct Access (to Moodle) plugin

Installing

This plugin installs using the standard install method for moodle plugins.

Unzip the archive in the /auth directory of your moodle installation

Browse to the Administration > Notification to finish logical installation

Enabling the plugin

Ticket based authentification needs being enabled in the Administration > Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication plugins panel.

You should place this authentication at the highest possible priority for the pluginto catch any explicit “ticket” attribute in the incoming query.

Global settings

There are only three settings for this plugin:

Ticket TimeGuard

This is the delay starting from ticket emission date the ticket will be valid if it has been created as a short ticket. It is given in hours.

Ticket Long Term TimeGuard

Same as above, but for the long tickets. It is given in days.

Use SSL

Tickets can be encrypted using either DES or RSA encryption. RSA uses the underlying openssl libraries. It is more compatible, but sometimes not available on non ssl enabled hosting. DES uses the mysql/mariadb AES_ENCRYPT/AES_DECRYPT function pair, but this is not available in other DB supports.

Credits

Valéry Frémaux (valery@activeprolearn.com)) Developments

Florence Labord (florence@activeprolearn.com) Documentation

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