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diff --git a/notes/auth_thoughts.txt b/notes/auth_thoughts.txt index 3ccaf668..4782dd0f 100644 --- a/notes/auth_thoughts.txt +++ b/notes/auth_thoughts.txt @@ -10,3 +10,45 @@ haven't been revoked. Could use portier with openid connect as an email-based option. Otherwise, orcid, github, google. +--------- + +Use macaroons! + +editor/user table has a "auth_epoch" timestamp; only macaroons generated +after this timestamp are valid. revocation is done by incrementing this +timestamp ("touch"). + +Rust CLI tool for managing users: +- create editor + +Special users/editor that can create editor accounts via API; eg, one for +fatcat-web. + +Associate one oauth2 id per domain per editor/user. + +Users come to fatcat-web and do oauth2 to login or create an account. All +oauth2 internal to fatcat-web. If successful, fatcat-web does an +(authenticated) lookup to API for that identifier. If found, requests a +new macaroon to use as a cookie for auth. All future requests pass this +cookie through as bearer auth. fatcat-web remains stateless! macaroon +contains username (for display); no lookup-per page. Need to logout/login for +this to update? + +Later, can do a "add additional account" feature. + +Backend: +- oauth2 account table, foreign key to editor table + => this is the only private table +- auth_epoch timestamp column on editor table +- lock editor by setting auth_epoch to deep future + +TODO: privacy policy + +fatcat API doesn't *require* auth, but if auth is provided, it will check +macaroon, and validate against editor table's timestamp. + +support oauth2 against: +- orcid +- git.archive.org +- github +? google |