Title: Local WordPress Accounts?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Local WordPress Accounts?

 *  Resolved [Curtiss Grymala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgrymala/)
 * (@cgrymala)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/)
 * Is there any way with this plugin to allow a handful of local WordPress accounts
   to exist that aren’t authenticated through CAS? We’re currently using Active 
   Directory to authenticate our users, but we have one or two users that are not
   in AD; if we change over to using CAS, we would still need to be able to allow
   those one or two users to authenticate on our system without having AD accounts.
   Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cas-maestro/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cas-maestro/)

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 *  [guidtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guidtz/)
 * (@guidtz)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919212)
 * I am also interested by this features because I could have users in openldap 
   with cas and users in wordpress without cas.
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Henrique Mouta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaurdan/)
 * (@vaurdan)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919237)
 * Hey!
    We are going to see what is the best approach to have this functionality
   🙂
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Curtiss Grymala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgrymala/)
 * (@cgrymala)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919239)
 * Thanks for looking into this. For my purposes, it would even be good enough if
   I could add a query parameter to wp-login.php to override the redirect to CAS,
   I think. I can probably whip up a patch for that if you’d like. Thanks.
 *  [timmmmyboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timmmmyboy/)
 * (@timmmmyboy)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919282)
 * +1 for this as well (a query parameter would work for us too). We have a system
   that we’re integrating with CAS but our users will have access for ~6 months 
   after they’ve left our university so having a fallback option to get them into
   the system (or with a query parameter we could provide a special entrypoint) 
   is a must.
 *  Plugin Author [Henrique Mouta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaurdan/)
 * (@vaurdan)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919285)
 * Hey,
 * We’re working on that, at the moment we have implemented a query parameter (wp-
   login.php?cas_bypass) to bypass CAS Authentication. It also allows registration
   of new users, if it is enabled in the WordPress settings.
 * But we need a opinion… Do you thing that we should allow Password Recovery? This
   will allow any user (even if it as CAS user) to change is password using the 
   email, and make possible to that CAS user login using the WordPress login form
   and the usual CAS page.
 * What do you think?
 *  [timmmmyboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timmmmyboy/)
 * (@timmmmyboy)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919286)
 * Hmm, I’m assuming they wouldn’t even see the password recovery option unless 
   they were using the bypass parameter? I’m thinking in our case this option would
   be necessary because after the user is no longer in CAS they will have no idea
   what their password in WordPress should be and it would be much easier to support
   by having them reset themselves and login rather than us having to manually assign
   and send a password to them. So I’d say yes keep the option for password resets.
 *  Plugin Author [Henrique Mouta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaurdan/)
 * (@vaurdan)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919293)
 * Hey,
    This was been implemented and released just now. To login using WordPress
   accounts, you must use the /wp-login.php?wp URL.
 * When you test it, please give us feedback, we would love to hear what you think
   🙂
 * Thanks for your help!
    Henrique
 *  [timmmmyboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timmmmyboy/)
 * (@timmmmyboy)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919294)
 * Works like a charm. Thank you all so much for such a quick response to this!
 *  [waitfortheword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waitfortheword/)
 * (@waitfortheword)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919329)
 * Two quick questions/issues in a similar vein:
 * Once I have activated CAS Maestro, I am unable to create new users in WordPress
   because the Password field disappears in the User creation screen. Is this intentional,
   or a bug — and do you know how I can get around it?
 * Second: the reason I’m using CAS login is to allow users to sign in with their(
   preexisting) University credentials. But there are some users who were created
   manually in WordPress — so the /wp-login.php?wp workaround is a lifesaver. However,
   I’m also trying to restrict specific pages to only registered users, so I’ve 
   implemented a plugin called [Only for Registered Users](http://wordpress.org/plugins/only-for-registered-users/).
   This seems to work nicely, but there’s no workaround for non-CAS accounts as 
   far as I can tell. Any advice?
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Henrique Mouta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaurdan/)
 * (@vaurdan)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919330)
 * Hey waitfortheword!
 * Yes, it is a bug, the password field should be visible when creating a new user.
   Going to fix it soon, thanks for the report!
 * Regarding that “Only for Registered Users”, maybe I’ll have to fork that plugin
   to allow normal WordPress authentication, but there is no solution right now.
 * Thanks.
 *  [waitfortheword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waitfortheword/)
 * (@waitfortheword)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919341)
 * Just wanted to follow up on this: any progress in addressing the bug that hides
   the password field from the user setup screen? We’ve been temporarily de-activating
   the plugin in order to manually add new users through the dashboard as required
   in certain cases, but it’s problematic and disruptive — and confusing to any 
   user who attempts to log “the normal way” while the plugin is deactivated. Thanks
   for your help.

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 * [Active Directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/active-directory/)
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/local-wordpress-accounts/#post-4919341)
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