Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Identity Provider

[Alec Warner]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:47 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:42 -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> > TL;DR: What if we launched id.gentoo.org, an identity provider that
> > provides authentication for Gentoo properties? Basically, 1 username /
> > password for wiki, bugs, email, forums, and any other http service[0][1].
> >
> > Today Gentoo has numerous systems that mostly work in a segmented way.
> >
> >  - To connect to hosts, we use ssh keys.
> >  - Git is authenticated via ssh keys.
> >  - Email uses LDAP passwords.
> >  - Bugzilla has its own identities, with their own passwords.
> >  - Wiki is separate, with its own passwords.
> >  - Forums are separate.
> >  - Infra has an additional 4 systems that use separate credentials.
> >
> > Some applications support 2FA (such as wiki.)
> > Some applications do not support 2FA.
> > Applications that require 2FA have a configuration for each app, so you
> > have N configurations.
> >
> > If we configured id.gentoo.org you would have 1 identity across all
> gentoo
> > properties.
> >
> > Is this a thing people are interested in?
> >
>
> What a coincidence I've just archived our old identity.gentoo.org [1]
> project.  And yes, we almost had this back in 2013 but Infra failed to
> deploy, and it was claimed obsolete by the time I joined Infra.
>
> Do you have any specific solution in mind?
>

Currently we have a standalone keycloak install with LDAP user federation.
We are looking to do a domain installation for redundancy purposes.
Our existing LDAP infrastructure for example (which few services use for
Auth) has at least 3 replicas.

-A


>
> [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/proj/identity.gentoo.org.git/
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>
>