my bad, Marius is correct

On 2010-03-30, at 12:07 PM, Marius Scurtescu wrote:

> This must be an editing error.
> 
> Version 0.9.7.2 of the spec requires exactly the other way around, the
> correct way: Client Account and Password (5.1) does not return a
> refresh token, and Username and Password (5.3) requires a refresh
> token to be returned.
> 
> Marius
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Brian Eaton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Still working on security considerations.  I'm comparing these two
>> profiles based on passwords:
>> 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hardt-oauth-01#section-5.1
>>   - this is probably used by automated tasks.
>>   - the password can be assumed to be high-entropy, since no one
>> needs to remember it.
>>   - why is this profile returning a refresh token?  AFAICT, it is not
>> useful.  When the access token expires, the client can use the client
>> password to get a new one.
>> 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hardt-oauth-01#section-6.1
>>   - this is probably used by installed applications
>>   - the password is low-entropy, it belongs to a human being.
>>   - this profile *should* return a refresh token, because otherwise
>> the installed application needs to save the password in order to get
>> long-lived access to user data.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
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