[ovirt-devel] [ATN] [master] SSO patchset were merged

[Oved Ourfali]

Ravi and Alon - thanks for great work and dedication!

Regards,
Oved

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have merged SSO patchset into master.
> These kind of deep infra changes are non trivial, we hope we reduced most
> of the side effects within the 171 revisions and testing.
> Thanks for Ravi Nori for his great effort!
>
> The SSO is based on OAuth2 specification, full description is
> available[1], it is a stable supported interface of engine.
>
> In a nut shell, the major change is that login dialog is now handled by a
> separate non gwt webapp, this webapp provides authentication and
> authorization services to other webapps.
>
> The immediate bonus is: no need to re-authenticate to user portal and/or
> admin portal, maybe soon we integrate reports.
> Performance bonus: if using spnego (kerberos) there is no performance
> penalty (double request).
> Usability bonus: support many authentication sequences we were unable to
> provide using the previous implementation.
>
> Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev.
>
> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/UniformSSOSupport
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