Tony: are you ok with dropping password grant?

You reference valid use cases. If you think it should continue, would you
provide the use cases?

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On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:57 PM Dick Hardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> The security topics says MUST. If you want to change that, then that is a
> different discussion. :)
>
> In the OAuth 2.1 document, it would just not be included. Applications can
> continue to be OAuth 2.0 compliant.
>
> BUT ... if there are valid, new use cases. Please describe them! Perhaps
> it should not be dropped.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:54 PM Anthony Nadalin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I would suggest a SHOULD NOT instead of MUST, there are still sites using
>> this and a grace period should be provided before a MUST is pushed out as
>> there are valid use cases out there still.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* OAuth <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * Dick Hardt
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:37 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.1: dropping password grant
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey List
>>
>>
>>
>> (Once again using the OAuth 2.1 name as a placeholder for the doc that
>> Aaron, Torsten, and I are working on)
>>
>>
>>
>> In the security topics doc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-14#section-2.4
>> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftools.ietf.org%2Fhtml%2Fdraft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-14%23section-2.4&data=02%7C01%7Ctonynad%40microsoft.com%7C47bb597eef584c95ba4108d7b4b274b2%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637176550905333283&sdata=nA1S7TBfZg6cSwY2hI8hpRXhIA2joaaJFmNXrATgr2Y%3D&reserved=0>
>>
>>
>>
>> The password grant MUST not be used.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some background for those interested. I added this grant into OAuth 2.0
>> to allow applications that had been provided password to migrate. Even with
>> the caveats in OAuth 2.0, implementors decide they want to prompt the user
>> to enter their credentials, the anti-pattern OAuth was created to
>> eliminate.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have concerns with dropping the password grant from the OAuth
>> 2.1 document so that developers don't use it?
>>
>>
>>
>> /Dick
>>
>
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