OK.

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:30 PM Daniel De La Rosa <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert, thank you for the details. Abhijit, i think we still need to
> discuss the details during our next TSC meeting since it sounds like there
> will be major impact for our customers
>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:12 PM Abhijit Kumbhare <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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