After Robert's explanation - do you still need it to be on the TSC agenda,
Daniel (and maybe Luis)?

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:03 PM Robert Varga <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21/03/2019 18:07, Luis Gomez wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > Can you please explain the impact of this? e.g. can we for instance
> change the default user admin/admin or use token authentication after this
> change?
>
> Well, I am just a caretaker trying to get things moving forward.
>
> From what I remember, user credentials should not be affected, as that
> goes through Shiro, which is a separate thing.
>
> I would suspect that token authentication would be affected, but I do
> not know the deployment details.
>
> Please note this not something new, Ryan has made a call out here:
> https://lists.opendaylight.org/pipermail/aaa-dev/2018-February/001606.html
> and there is a tracker to replace Oltu here:
> https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/AAA-162. Based on the conversation
> we have had on this when he was still around, his assessment was that
> the feature is not useful in practice.
>
> I do not claim authority over this matter, nor do I claim Ryan's
> assessment is correct. Unfortunately, status quo in this project is
> simply untenable for the following reasons:
>
> 1) JIRA has not been scrubbed for a year. When I scrubbed it, we
> immediately got a fix from Richard Kosegi for AAA-174. That issue has
> been sitting there for 10 months and it was fixed in about 24 hours.
>
> 2) there are a few long-standing issues filed, which require fixing in
> Oltu. That is just not going to happen in upstream.
>
> 3) it is a core project, on which we rely for our security. We just
> cannot afford it being a security hazard.
>
> 4) org.json/json dependency, which is coming from Oltu is a real
> licensing concern, from what I understood from the conversations we had
> (even at the TSC call) around
> https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/ODLPARENT-36
>
> That is why I merged the change early in the dev cycle and announced it
> very widely, so that there is plenty of time to determine impacts and
> discuss alternatives.
>
> The simplest way to determine it is, and I am kindly asking you to, grab
> the latest Karaf distro and test out the functionality you expect to work.
>
> If it turns out that there are stakeholders who are affected, I think
> the proper course is for them (or their proxies) to come forward and
> take ownership of the feature:
> - it is mere 800LOC of code that got removed
> - there are at least 3 bugs filed against token auth
> - there are alternative libraries: https://oauth.net/code/java/
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
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