On 08/04/2011 01:26 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 19:43 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 10:45 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 18:57 +0100, Martyn Taylor wrote:
>>> We intend to use OAuth across components for authentication. This
>>> would require adding OAuth Provider support to conductor and OAuth
>>> client support to each component accessing protected resources.
>>> Katello already supports a OAuth (two-legged) which hopefully means
>>> relatively straight forward integration once we have the other parts
>>> in place.
>> I think there's been some confusion about OAuth, what Katello uses it
>> for and what we would use it for.
>>
>> In Katello's case, it is actually an OAuth consumer and uses it when
>> authenticating against Candlepin and Pulp's REST APIs.
>>
>> Two-legged means that Candlepin/Pulp don't authenticate a user, but
>> rather authenticate Katello using a shared secret. Katello passes
>> Candlepin/Pulp the username via a HTTP header.
>>
>> IMHO, the comparable case for us is Conductor authenticating against
>> IWHD and Image Factory.
>
> Exactly! I am just struggling with understanding why and how it is
> better than say SSL?
> Is it faster? Is there a good key management infrastructure and tools?
> If yes - great if no should we be worried about this and pick other
> credentials that we already have tools for?
I assume two legged OAuth was chosen over X.509 client certificates
purely for the sake of simplicity.
Yes. It assumes a common namespace for users, and that is all.
-- bk