Authentication Working Group Minutes

Tuesday, 2023/06/27

10:00 am ET

Attendees:

Terrell Russell, Kory Draughn, Alan King, Phillip Davis, Martin Golasowski (IT4I), Claudio Cacciari (SURF)

DISCUSSION

IT4I is now a member!
- Waiting to port OIDC plugin to the 4.3.0 framework
- Still on 4.2.12
- Wants to use JWT directly with iRODS server
- Also very interested in the new HTTP API + OAuth2/OIDC
pam_interactive
- Repository transferred from Stefan/SURF
  - https://github.com/korydraughn/irods_auth_pam_interactive
- Consider transferring to irods namespace, with separate releases from server
- Still uses stdout
- Needs tests
OIDC/OAuth2 in HTTP C++ API
- https://github.com/irods/irods_client_http_api
- HTTP API knows Basic auth
- OIDC/OAuth2 demonstrated for UGM
  - irods/irods_client_http_api#37
- Hoping this becomes very approachable for external developers / community
New auth framework in Python iRODS Client (PRC)
- Early work irods/python-irodsclient#461
- Also pure python protocol exploration
- Equivalent work in Go/Java has not begun
New auth framework plugin project template
- irods/irods#7138
- Patterned after some other new plugin project templates in the irods namespace
- Would help developers know what the pattern and components look like
- Splitting the source files... into separate client and server components
Next Meeting
- July 2023