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@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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