Native login implementation » History » Version 4
Tom Clegg, 04/17/2019 06:13 PM
| 1 | 1 | Tom Clegg | h1. Native login implementation |
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| 3 | Background: sso-provider is a Rails app that provides an OAuth2 interface to OAuth2, LDAP, and local password database backends. It has some problems: |
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| 4 | * high maintenance cost |
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| 5 | * high admin cost (install/upgrade/troubleshoot) |
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| 6 | * unnecessary extra steps in login flow |
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| 8 | Proposal: |
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| 9 | * Implement the backends in arvados-controller (instead of proxying to RailsAPI and redirecting to sso-provider) |
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| 10 | * During transition phase, continue to support sso-provider as a backend |
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| 12 | Development/release roadmap: |
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| 13 | 3 | Tom Clegg | # Add Google (OpenID Connect) backend as an alternative to sso-provider |
| 14 | 1 | Tom Clegg | # Add LDAP backend as another alternative |
| 15 | # Add password database backend -- or, alternatively, suggest installing an LDAP server |
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| 16 | # Remove sso-provider backend |
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| 18 | Implementation notes: |
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| 19 | 2 | Tom Clegg | * https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/oauth2/google, https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/oauth2, https://github.com/coreos/go-oidc |
| 20 | 1 | Tom Clegg | * https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/ldap.v2 |
| 21 | * 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? |
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| 22 | 4 | Tom Clegg | * Controller will probably need to access the sso-provider's database in order to discover the upstream provider IDs for existing users. |