Hi Rohit, Not a very constructive email I'm afraid but I too would be very interested in one-time password authentication for CS. Is anyone that you know of working on RADIUS auth as this would be a relatively easy way to integrate a wide number of OTP systems that rely on a secondary auth challenge for the OTP. This secondary auth mechanism is part of the RADIUS standard and would cover RSA as well as the system that I'm interested in implementing (Fortinet's FortiAuthenticator) and many other enterprise-focussed OTP systems.
Not sure if OTP/2FA would be suitable for API access so a second question is: Would it be feasible to use different auth backends for the GUI vs the API? As I understand it, the GUI is simply a 'wrapper' for the API so perhaps not but I'm sure I'm not alone here in wanting OTP/2FA, perhaps even at the expense of API access. Contrary to popular belief within the CS community, not everyone uses the API (shock horror!). Maybe OTP/2FA is not an issue for API access but I assume it would be a problem for the use of Puppet/Ansible/Salt etc. Perhaps a source IP ACL so that only specified IPs can use a standard auth method but all other access mandates OTP/2FA? Not sure how AWS works with their MFA feature - anyone? I'm afraid I'm just a (ab)user and couldn't program anything myself - just curious to see if anyone has any thoughts or existing efforts in this area? Cheers, Adrian -----Original Message----- From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 12 August 2014 11:41 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [SHOW] Authentication refactoring >From the user end there is no change, not in UI or any change expected in clients except one: Since login and logout are now implemented like your regular api, we don't allow uses to call login and logout and other such AuthenticatorAPIs directly like via integration port Stephen, I'm not sure if we natively support RSA and other things at present we only have our custom login auth mechanism, signature/key based auth and a simple SSO (pre-shared key) methods. This refactoring will open doors for saml, oauth and possibly others. This is merged on master now, even though I did testing at my end please let me know if something got broke? From the outside world nothing should break, i.e. refactoring. Cheers. On 12-Aug-2014, at 12:32 pm, Stephen Turner <stephen.tur...@citrix.com> wrote: > Are there any UI changes? Some auth mechanisms might need more than just username and password (RSA token, for example, or even just "give the 1st, 4th and 5th characters"). > > -- > Stephen Turner > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com] > Sent: 12 August 2014 04:51 > To: dev > Subject: [SHOW] Authentication refactoring > > Hi, > > The way we handle login and logout is hardcoded and since there is no APICommand/BaseCmd implementation the apidoc, apidiscovery and other don't discover these apis. For supporting SAML as an authentication mechanism, I've refactored the Auth mechanism as a pluggable service that loads with api-server artifact and both login and logout are now implemented as a pseduo BaseCmd classes. > > I call them pseudo because their execute() is never called, the authentication guards in ApiServlet class make sure we call an authenticate method of such classes. Since, they are tightly coupled with cloud-server's ApiServlet it only made sense to have the interface definition and implementation within the same package/artifact as well. This also solves the apidoc issue for login/logout and saml related auth apis. > > I'll merge them after sometime and continue working on saml stuff. Will push the code in the branch "auth-refactor" in an hour for review/testing now. This does not break anything and should not cause any auth related issues for all existing clients. > > Any suggestions, feedback welcome! 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