Rodric I think having additional authentication methods no one will object, but 
the devil are in the details :-)

Also when you say things like “replace” with no more context some folks that 
are using the software in production, quickly jump into the conclusion on “Now 
I have thousands of end users suddenly can’t authenticate and applications in 
the field broken :sob: “

The current auth SPI I believe allows the controller to be customize to handle 
an authorization header of “Bearer” token instead of “Basic”

If your are referring to OAuth 2.0 is quite large but maybe your referring to 
discussing “Scopes” in an OpenWhisk world, ability to have more grain control. 

For example ability to have a token with a scope have the ability to delete 
artifacts vs a token that is only allow to create but not delete vs a token 
that is only allow to invoke a trigger with “long” expiration time and nothing 
else. 

- Carlos Santana
@csantanapr

> On Jun 21, 2019, at 7:23 AM, Rodric Rabbah <rod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has thought about or implemented an oauth based
> authentication mechanism in the controller. I've thought about replacing
> the subject authentication with oauth and think it would not be a lot of
> work to do although it does have some wider implications.
> 
> -r

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