Centralized Authentication Service
The configuration of the application is stored in an instance folder. To get the application running on your own computer, you will need to create this under the root (CAS). Next, configuration values for flask are stored in a file called config.py.
Things you can configure are documented here: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/config/
The following is a short listing of the management API's available.
In order to be able to access the management API's one must have the proper authorisation. The listing below shows the permission groups installed by default. Any User which is part of a UserGroup connected to the listed PermissionGroups are allowed to create, retrieve, update, and delete the respectively defined objects.
In order to perform any of these operations, the operator must have permissions for user_management
| Operation | Path | Method | Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add a user | /users |
POST |
full_name, preferred_name, nickname, username, password, email_address, webiste, active, staff, superuser |
| View all users | /users |
GET |
- |
| View a specific user | /users/<user_id> |
GET |
where <user_id> is the id of the user |
| Update a user's details | /users/<user_id> |
PUT |
where <user_id> is the id of the user. All the same fields as adding a user |
| Operation | Path | Method | Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add a group | /groups |
POST |
group_name, description |
| View all groups | /groups |
GET |
- |
| View a specific group | /groups/<group_id> |
GET |
where <group_id> is the id of the group |
| Add a user to a group | /groups/<group_id>/add_user/<user_id> |
GET |
where <group_id> is the id of the group and <user_id> is the id of the user to add to the group |
| Operation | Path | Method | Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| View all PermissionGroups | /permissiongroups |
GET |
- |
| Add a new PermissionGroup | /permissiongroups |
POST |
name |
| Assign a PermissionGroup to a UserGroup | /groups/<group_id>/add_pgroup/<pgroup_id> |
POST |
<group_id> is the id of the group to add a new PermissionGroup specified by <pgroup_id> to |