Infrastructure Team/Central Login

Summary

This is initiative to permit a user to access multiple SL resources while providing their credentials (such as userid and password) only once.

Resources to authenticate on

• http://wiki.sugarlabs.org
• http://git.sugarlabs.org
• http://bugs.sugarlabs.org
• http://activities.sugarlabs.org
• http://translate.sugarlabs.org
• https://obs.sugarlabs.org (Front-end HTTP API for OBS clients)
• https://packages.sugarlabs.org

Authenticate front-ends

Preliminary list of possible front-end methods to authenticate users.

• For now https://obs.sugarlabs.org requires Basic HTTP Auth.
• CAS, the most common method, with a requirement to provide login/password, is useful for people who are not arriving from a Sugar Shell instance (and so, Sugar's certificate-based method does not work implicitly for them), and for casual visitors or those wishing to avoid the technical work of taking care of user side certificates.
• Users certificates are useful for people who need to be authenticated from a Sugar Shell where Sugar might perform some authentication routines under the hood.

Authenticate back-end

• ldap.sugarlabs.org