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h1. Native login implementation
Background: sso-provider is a Rails app that provides an OAuth2 interface to OAuth2, LDAP, and local password database backends. It has some problems:
* high maintenance cost
* high admin cost (install/upgrade/troubleshoot)
* unnecessary extra steps in login flow
Proposal:
* Implement the backends in arvados-controller (instead of proxying to RailsAPI and redirecting to sso-provider)
* During transition phase, continue to support sso-provider as a backend
Development/release roadmap:
# Add Google (OpenID Connect) backend as an alternative to sso-provider
# Add LDAP backend as another alternative
# Add password database backend -- or, alternatively, suggest installing an LDAP server
# Remove sso-provider backend
Implementation notes:
* https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/oauth2/google, https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/oauth2, https://github.com/coreos/go-oidc
* https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/ldap.v2
* https://github.com/korylprince/go-ad-auth wraps ldap to make ActiveDirectory easier -- perhaps we would offer an ActiveDirectory backend as well as a generic LDAP backend?