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Hi Alec, |
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On Mon, 18 May 2020 18:42:24 -0700 Alec Warner wrote: |
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>TL;DR: What if we launched id.gentoo.org, an identity provider that |
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>provides authentication for Gentoo properties? Basically, 1 username / |
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>password for wiki, bugs, email, forums, and any other http |
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>service[0][1]. |
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>Today Gentoo has numerous systems that mostly work in a segmented way. |
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> - To connect to hosts, we use ssh keys. |
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> - Git is authenticated via ssh keys. |
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> - Email uses LDAP passwords. |
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> - Bugzilla has its own identities, with their own passwords. |
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> - Wiki is separate, with its own passwords. |
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> - Forums are separate. |
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> - Infra has an additional 4 systems that use separate credentials. |
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>Some applications support 2FA (such as wiki.) |
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>Some applications do not support 2FA. |
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>Applications that require 2FA have a configuration for each app, so you |
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>have N configurations. |
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>If we configured id.gentoo.org you would have 1 identity across all |
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>gentoo properties. |
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>Is this a thing people are interested in? |
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>[0] It's unlikely operations for git via ssh would change in this |
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>rollout. [1] Its unclear if the scope is "gentoo developers" or "any |
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>community member." The former have LDAP accounts and @gentoo.org email |
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>addresses and so we can manage them easily; managing 1000s of other |
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>accounts in the IDP remains to be seem. |
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In case 2FA won't be mandatory I find this a good idea. |
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Kind regards |
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Lars Wendler |
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Gentoo package maintainer |
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