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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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[0] It's unlikely operations for git via ssh would change in this rollout. |
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[1] Its unclear if the scope is "gentoo developers" or "any community |
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member." The former have LDAP accounts and @gentoo.org email addresses and |
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so we can manage them easily; managing 1000s of other accounts in the IDP |
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remains to be seem. |
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