On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 07:57:43PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:56 AM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > - What does AAA stand for? (Or am I supposed to know that already?)
> > - What is this new group actually working on?
> >
> > The only "substantial" thing I can see here are the three words
"AAA
> > replacement login", which means nothing to me :sad-face:
>
> AAA = Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
>
> Essentially, we're talking about FAS.
So what the phrase means is that the existing authentication,
authorization and accounting functionality in FAS is to be replaced
with a new "login" that this group will develop?
With this project yes. Much of the heavy lifting with be from freeipa,
but we will need/add an api and interface on top to do what we need.
Is this perhaps about cleaning up the incoherent multitude of half-
baked authentication methods that packagers have to wrestle with, so
we'll only need to authenticate once to work on a package?
Nope, but that is related, and something to be worked on/considered in
this as well.
kevin