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On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:42 -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 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 gentoo |
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> properties. |
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> Is this a thing people are interested in? |
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What a coincidence I've just archived our old identity.gentoo.org [1] |
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project. And yes, we almost had this back in 2013 but Infra failed to |
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deploy, and it was claimed obsolete by the time I joined Infra. |
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Do you have any specific solution in mind? |
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[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/proj/identity.gentoo.org.git/ |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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