Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-15 Thread Bill Mills
User impersonation is very very risky.  The legal aspects of it must be considered.  There's a lot of work to do to make it safe/effective. Issuing a scoped token that allows ready only access can work with the above caveats.  Then properties/componenets have to explicitly support the new scope

Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-15 Thread Justin Richer
For this case you'd want to be very careful about who was able to do such impersonation, obviously, but it's doable today with custom IdP behavior. You can simply use OpenID Connect and have the IdP issue an id token for the target user instead of the "actual" current user account.  I would als

[OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-15 Thread Bill Burke
We have a case where we want to allow a logged in admin user to impersonate another user so that they can visit differents browser apps as that user (So they can see everything that the user sees through their browser). Anybody know of any protocol work being done here in the OAuth group or s