Nope. I wouldn't worry too much. Should be a simple refactor either
direction.

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 10:22 Iain Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Randall. Have you any thoughts on doing the lookup in a tween vs
> wsgi middleware? Will it amount to the same thing? We don't know for
> certain that all inner apps will be pyramid apps (it's conceivable there
> might be other wsgi deployed things) which is why I was thinking middleware
> first.
>
> iain
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Randall Leeds <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> You're on the right track.
>>
>> Whether it's the RemoteUserAuthenticationPolicy or some other policy, the
>> key thing is just to have your application code not know or care how or why
>> there is an authenticated user or how permission was granted in the current
>> context.
>>
>> Lean on `request.authenticated_userid`, `request.effective_principals`
>> and `request.has_permission` and let everything else be specified at
>> "deployment" by integrating the right policies.
>>
>> I have exactly a set-up like you describe in one application right now,
>> where I have an oauth tween that sets the WSGI env from oauth parameters
>> and then RemoteUserAuthenticationPolicy sees that.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:01 AM Iain Duncan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, just sharing in the hopes of feedback. My latest thought for shared
>>> auth is something like this:
>>>
>>> SSO Login app
>>> - Pyramid app that handles login process, has db for looking up users
>>> and groups
>>> - after lookup, creates a JWT that stores the user id and list of
>>> principles
>>>
>>> Other Apps
>>> - have a middleware layer that decodes the JWT token, checks it, and
>>> then puts the user id and the list of principles into the WSGI env, much
>>> the way repoze.who does
>>> - main app(s) uses a RemoteUserAuth policy, handle ACLs from the info in
>>> the WSGI env *only*.
>>>
>>> I like this right now (in my ignorance, lol) because our main apps can
>>> be completely ignorant of where identity comes from  and if we change
>>> schemes, we only have to swap out middleware. But I'm quite possibly still
>>> on Mount Stupid. (http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475) So comments
>>> welcome!
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> iain
>>>
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