We use CAS for authentication to our drupal site. I have been struggling to show the users "Real name", instead of their login name in various modules, but recently realized that a user can change their actual username in Drupal and still login correctly through CAS, using a different username. In otherwords, I login to CAS as peterson, but can change my Drupal username to Andy, and that's what shows on the site. I'd like to use this, and encourage people to change their username to their preferred display name, but I want to make sure that the CAS module is intended to be used in this way, and that I am not inadvertantly causing problems for the site down the road, next time I update CAS, or move to 6, or whatever. Any advice would be appreciated!

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metzlerd commented

Basically if you do not check "Drupal is cas user repository" and you check the highjack users box, this is the way cas is supposed to behave. This is true an all current versions of CAS (6.x included). I have no intention of changing that.

Basically the answer is yes, feel free to use it this way.

Dave

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magibird commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Awesome. Thanks for the response, or for this incredibly useful module!