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Till Toenshoff reassigned MESOS-2001:
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Assignee: Till Toenshoff
> Authenticatee modules similar to Authenticator modules
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> Key: MESOS-2001
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2001
> Project: Mesos
> Issue Type: Epic
> Components: modules
> Reporter: Till Toenshoff
> Assignee: Till Toenshoff
> Labels: authentication, module
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> For covering a complete modules based authentication, we will need to allow
> for authenticatee modules just like we are with authenticator modules.
> h4.Motivation
> Allow for third parties to quickly develop and plug-in new authentication
> methods. The modularized Authenticatee API will lower the barrier for the
> community to provide new methods to Mesos. An example for such additional,
> next step module could be PAM (LDAP, MySQL, NIS, UNIX) backed authentication.
> cyrus-sasl2 itself already offers more than a half a dozen mechanisms via its
> standard plugins and these could be triggered by additional Authenticator /
> Authenticatee modules. cyrus-sasl2 does support even more mechanisms when
> being custom built (about a full dozen) but we do not want to bundle
> cyrus-sasl2 to enforce custom builds. Alternative authentication (especially
> non-SASL based) methods may bring in new dependencies that we don't want to
> enforce on all of our users. Mesos users may be required to use custom
> authentication techniques due to strict security policies.
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