On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Asela Pathberiya <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Prabath/Johann/IS Team,
>
> According to the openid-connect specification, It is stated that the
> recommended approach for granting id_token is, by using code and
> implicit grant types.  But WSO2IS supports for password grant type as
> well... I think it would be fine [1].  But, what are commendation for
> selecting a grant types....  Is there any special reason for
> implementing password grant type for openid-connect....  Are we
> recommending the password grant type for openid-connect ... What are
> the security consideration with it ?
>
> I just doubt that we may have mistakenly supported the password grant
> type for openid-connect..  Because..  it seems to be we can retrieve
> an id_token even for client credential grant type which seems to be
> not correct..[2] ?
>

Current implementation seems whatever the  grant type hits token end point
with scope=openid we issue id_token that is why we missed Implicit grant
type while including id_token token for all other grant types.

>
> [1]
> http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs-ab/Week-of-Mon-20130128/002981.html
> [2] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY-3055
>

+1 for [2] since client credentials grant type has nothing to do with
resource owner.

>
> Thanks,
> Asela.
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Asela
>
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