I created a PR https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-website/pull/478 that should fix the Slack inviter, based on Carlos' original implementation [1].
The PR contributes the file slack-invite.js which implements an OpenWhisk web action and uses the Slack invite API <https://api.slack.com/methods/admin.users.invite> to send an email invitation to join the OpenWhisk Slack team. The action requires a Slack token <https://api.slack.com/authentication/token-types#user> to work correctly. The API call is made in _layouts/slack.html using Nimbella's anonymous action invocation <https://nimbella.com>: no accounts needed, and the API can be maintained by any of the project committers without requiring extrinsic accounts or resources. The token for the API call is uniquely encrypted for this action. Should this token change, the encrypted value can be regenerated with the following Nimbella encryption API, replacing the placeholder <token> with the actual Slack App token. curl https://encrypt.nimbella.io/github.com/apache/openwhisk-website/blob/slack/apis/slack-invite.js?slacktoken=<token> [1] https://github.com/csantanapr/openwhisk-slackinvite -r > On Apr 11, 2021, at 10:28 AM, Rodric Rabbah <rod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Courtney - I'm sorry you're having trouble with the slack auto > signup. I > > opened a defect to investigate [1]. > > > > It is possible to implement external authentication. My understanding is > > that IBM Cloud Function for example implemented an integration with their > > IAM (someone from IBM would be better speak to this). > > > > There are two parts to this: authentication and use management, and > > entitlement. Can you share more details about which identity provider you > > are interested in using? > > > > This would certainly be an area we'd also welcome contributions if that's > > something you're interested in. > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-website/issues/477 > > > >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 7:03 AM Courtney Robinson < > courtney.robin...@hypi.io> > >> wrote: > >> > >> I've been trying to join slack now for over a week but was unable to. > >> Finally thought I'd investigate and found the issue is the inviter fn is > >> using an old version of node > >> https://openwhisk.apache.org/slack.html > >> [image: Screenshot 2021-04-10 at 10.59.00.png] > >> [image: Screenshot 2021-04-10 at 10.58.34.png] > >> > >> What I've been wanting to ask about is how to integrate an external > >> authentication and authorisation provider? > >> I can see from the codebase that there are a number of Spi impls but > also > >> found > >> https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/pull/1914 > >> https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/issues/1152 > >> which suggests the this isn't supported. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Courtney Robinson > >> Founder and CEO, Hypi > >> Tel: ++44 208 123 2413 (GMT+0) <https://hypi.io> > >> > >> <https://hypi.io> > >> https://hypi.io > >> >
