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Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

From Xavier <yadd@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project
Subject Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian
Date 2020-04-07 16:30 +0200
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Le 07/04/2020 à 16:02, Enrico Zini a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 03:28:07PM +0200, Xavier wrote:
> 
>> With a SSO, I don't think it's a good thing to have a protected app as
>> user database (even if it's possible). Then migration consists to
>> extract gitlab accounts and push them in LDAP (2 branches, one for DD,
>> one for guests)
> 
> Ok, please help me to see where that would be an issue.

It's not an issue. With a SSO we shall probably change this: salsa
accounts will be created on-the-fly using federation mechanism, then
there is only one user database (LDAP with 2 branches)

> The current status of accounts, is that:
> 
>  - There is only one LDAP server, DSA-managed, on db.debian.org, which
>    has accounts that do not end in "-guest". They may be DD or ex-DD
>    accounts, or "guest accounts" created for non-DDs who need to have
>    temporary access to porterboxes
> 
>  - There are accounts ending in "-guest" (that are not "guest
>    accounts"), that are not managed by DSA, and used to be on Alioth's
>    separate LDAP when alioth existed.
>    
>  - "-guest" accounts for purposes on sso.debian.org authentication are
>    now stored on a hand-maintained text file that is exported somehow to
>    serve as an apache authentication source for sso.debian.org
> 
>  - "-guest" accounts on Salsa are stored on Salsa's user database
> 
> We currently have all sorts of overlaps and corner cases:
> 
>  - "guest accounts" in LDAP that do not end in "-guest" and are for
>    non-DDs
>  - "-guest" accounts in Salsa for DDs and ex-DDs, with the part before
>    "-guest" not matching the LDAP account name.
> 
> I wonder if we have the same "-guest" accounts in Salsa and in the
> sso.debian.org text file, that are controlled by different people?
> 
> With the Salsa proposal:
> 
>  - the text file disappears, reducing the count of user databases from 3
>    to 2
>  - LDAP remains as it is, and Salsa remains as it is
>  - DD accounts remain on LDAP
>  - We gain an explicit mapping between LDAP accounts and Salsa accounts,
>    via nm.debian.org, that we currently do not have
>  - People who gain or lose DD status can keep using their Salsa account
>    without needing to migrate from "something-guest" to "something", or
>    from "something" to "something-guest"
> 
> With the Salsa proposal the only change from here that I can see is that
> we would start to have non-DD accounts on Salsa that do not end with
> "-guest", like we already have non-DD accounts on LDAP now that do not
> end with "-guest".
> 
> I still don't see how the Salsa proposal makes adoption of a new system
> harder than what we have now: removing one user database and introducing
> a mapping between the remaining two, seem to me to make further
> adoptions actually easier.

No not harder, just different ;-)

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  Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-06 18:20 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-06 20:50 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-06 21:20 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-07 10:40 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Geert Stappers <stappers@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 11:30 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 17:10 +0200
            Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-08 17:40 +0200
              Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 18:00 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-09 09:50 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Michael Lustfield <michael@lustfield.net> - 2020-04-09 12:20 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-10 09:30 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 14:50 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 18:00 +0200
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                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 22:10 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 22:30 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Michael Lustfield <michael@lustfield.net> - 2020-04-06 21:50 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-10 09:50 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-10 10:30 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-04-10 21:50 +0200
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                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <leader@debian.org> - 2020-04-11 20:20 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 10:40 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 17:30 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 12:20 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 19:10 +0200
  Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-04-06 21:00 +0200
  Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 12:40 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-07 14:10 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 14:40 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-07 15:30 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 15:40 +0200
            Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-07 16:10 +0200
              Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 16:30 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 17:50 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Michael Lustfield <michael@lustfield.net> - 2020-04-07 16:30 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-07 17:00 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 17:40 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 22:30 +0200
  Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 17:30 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 17:40 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 19:00 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 21:50 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-07 19:00 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2020-04-07 20:30 +0200
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        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-08 11:40 +0200
  Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 12:30 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 18:00 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2020-04-08 21:20 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 21:40 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-09 09:30 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2020-04-09 20:10 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-09 20:30 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-09 23:30 +0200
            Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2020-04-12 10:40 +0200
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                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2020-04-13 18:50 +0200
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        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-08 15:30 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 16:10 +0200
            Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-08 16:30 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 18:10 +0200
            Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-09 10:10 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 14:40 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-10 21:50 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-08 14:20 +0200
    Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 14:40 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 14:50 +0200
        Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2020-04-08 15:00 +0200
          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-08 15:20 +0200
      Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> - 2020-04-10 21:50 +0200
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          Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> - 2020-04-11 19:30 +0200
            Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-11 20:10 +0200
            Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-12 07:30 +0200
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                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-13 16:00 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> - 2020-04-13 21:00 +0200
                Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2020-04-13 21:30 +0200

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